Timezones make it almost impossible to find the best time to upload a chapter. The best way to get a lot of readers is just to regularly upload so you get more exposure. Also, I recommend uploading at different times so you get different readers from different timezones.at certain times I get 100 reader and other times I get like 10, what have you found is the best time to upload a chapter?
This is generally true but there are novels that are exceptions, a lot of them. Thing is all those exceptions have something huge going for them. That being said consistent posting is one of the easiest methods to get readers as long as your novel is not horrible.Consistent exposure is more important than when exactly you post. So, for instance, posting 3x a week will get you more readers than 1x a week. Posting 5x a week will get you more readers than 3x a week.
Put effort into making your story legible so no one writes a review that says "The premise is interesting, but the writing is atrocious! TWO STARS!" You can't help if people just don't like your story, but you can write well with practice and study.
It's fine, I get that too. You just gotta stay in your toes and write while learning new things about English grammar.Recently, I find myself leaving this kind of review a lot. Good premise, horrid grammar. Sometimes, it's like I'm reading MTL. I always say find a proof reader or editor. Doesn't have to be a professional one, there are lots of bored ppl on the internet. Or spend some time to polish ur grammar.
I dunno. You post just really spoke to me.
Recently, I find myself leaving this kind of review a lot. Good premise, horrid grammar. Sometimes, it's like I'm reading MTL. I always say, "find a proof reader or editor." ItD doesn't have to be a professional one, there arelotsa lot of boredpplpeople on the internet. Or spend some time to polishuryour grammar.
I dunno.YouYour post just really spoke to me.
This is generally true but there are novels that are exceptions, a lot of them. Thing is all those exceptions have something huge going for them. That being said consistent posting is one of the easiest methods to get readers as long as your novel is not horrible.
Every writer hopes to read a well thought out criticism of their work, but not every writer is looking for someone to slam their work based on their level of language mastery. I would encourage you all to point out mistakes to an author, but critique the work based on the content rather than the author's command of the language.
As a reader I think just upload consistently. I would often check on my favorite series to see if they uploaded yet and once I realize when they upload everytime, I go on at that time for the update. Meh just me?
If you guys want to know what I do... I update 3-4 times a day (time of day really doesn't matter). I keep my chapters down around 1k words. I make sure the synopsis, title and picture work for my story.
The rest just comes down to the reader's taste. Sometimes you'll love an idea or story and people will hate it. Sometimes you'll write something and people will love it, even if you aren't sold on it.
Recently, I find myself leaving this kind of review a lot. Good premise, horrid grammar. Sometimes, it's like I'm reading MTL. I always say find a proof reader or editor. Doesn't have to be a professional one, there are lots of bored ppl on the internet. Or spend some time to polish ur grammar.
I dunno. You post just really spoke to me.
See, I can't do that. There is a balance to be struck, in my case around 1/4 of my chapters contain a single idea that takes nearly 4K words to express properly, and if I were to break it off part way through relaying the concept it really would hurt the quality of the story. As for the rest of the chapters, I push multiple concepts in the same chapter in order to bring it up to the same 4K words as the ones with the big concepts in order to keep them close to the same length.
In other words, I write enough I could easily meet the same release schedule, but I feel it would really cause the quality of my writing to suffer if I were to do that, and I'm not going to do something like that for a cheap trick to get more views. (Then again, my dedication to quality seems to have built up a plenty big following without the cheap tricks, so I'm speaking from a bit of a privileged position.)
You shouldn't equate word count with quality writing. The reason for trying for around 1000 words per release is to realize how your audience is consuming the content. You as a writer, should understand the medium you are writing for at the time you sit down to create your work. If you are writing for a 20 minute TV show for instance, you know that writing a novel for each screen play would get you fired and your work would never reach the target audience.
Our target audience for a web novel is most likely going to be reading from a cell phone during periods they have time (breaks at work, between classes, lunch breaks etc.). A shorter release means that person with the cell phone can finish reading in those short breaks. You certainly can write out long, harder to read releases, but you'll be removing a large part of the audience you have by doing so. You are writing an epic novel for people to try and read in fifteen minutes. It's frustrating as a reader to be left without a beginning, middle and an end.
Challenge yourself to write with the media in mind, rather than what you think is proper for any writing. If you were hired to write greeting cards for instance, would you feel that only four thousand words would be a quality product?
Not necessarily. While shorter chapters does limit what you can write, it doesn't have to be of lower quality. In many cases, stories with short chapters are of better quality as the author removes fillers that make the stories boring or lengthy. Of course Ai-chan isn't talking about shianshia, those are filled with fillers so a short chapter is usually nothing more than fillers. You can write about one thing that happens instead of several things that happen. You can forgo scene changes completely, which makes it flow better and make the story easier to read.I can see what you're saying, but shorter chapters do limit the scope of ideas you can present and it actually does lower the overall quality since you wind up wrapping up these thoughts a lot quicker. I have seen writers make it work, but my own writing style doesn't work for broken thoughts very well.
I have seen novels with longer chapters succeed, and I tell my readers up front that my inspirations are Death Mage and WMW and to expect a lot of the same things. As I mentioned before, Death Mage's chapters are about 2X mine in length, which brings them to about 8X yours. It seems to still get plenty of success and is easily of novel quality.
The big thing though is definitely the writing style. The slow pace of my writing style makes it so the readers would probably be Ok with waiting 40 chapters till the first major conflict, but 160 chapters is an entirely different story. Just the psychological meaning of those numbers also has a big influence. There are a lot of things to consider, and simple rules of thumb like what you are presenting here will not work for everyone.
Not necessarily. While shorter chapters does limit what you can write, it doesn't have to be of lower quality. In many cases, stories with short chapters are of better quality as the author removes fillers that make the stories boring or lengthy. Of course Ai-chan isn't talking about shianshia, those are filled with fillers so a short chapter is usually nothing more than fillers. You can write about one thing that happens instead of several things that happen. You can forgo scene changes completely, which makes it flow better and make the story easier to read.