Congrats Buddy Bear. That is impressive to me.
Only have 3 stories up so far. None have even gotten to 10,000 views yet. So I am very impressed by those that are "Famous".
I would love to hear from others as well as to how many they have.
YEAH THATS IMPRESSIVE! I have two stories in a race to see who makes it to 4000 first. I couldn't imagine having as much success as you. Very nice, CONGRATS! It would be interesting to see the breakdown among categories...a couple people told me I should write something for a specific category because they were very popular but my stories have been based around specific characters that wouldn't be in those specific situations.
Wow, that's a lot Buddy. I don't know if anyone will be able to top that! Congrats!
I have eight so far.
The breakdown:
Hardcore - 1
Reluctance - 3
- 2
Group Sex - 1
Anal - 1
I have one that recently hit over 100,000 clicks (in the category with a 'cheating' theme). That's a damn hard number to hit! lol
I agree, the stats Shylass mentioned would be interesting to see as well.
I have one famous story and it's in the I-word section, there's another of mine which is in the MILF section and it's got 27-odd K views, linked in my forum signature. I'd like that one to be more famous, but I don't really mind if it is.
I have 4 Famous Stories. 3 are in Group Sex and 1 is in Anal. I have 5 other stories over 20,000 and hopefully heading toward Famous Story.
Congrats to Dancing_Doll for hitting 100,000. That's really great!
I suggest a new Badge called Legendary Stories for 100,000 views.
Give stories time. Sometimes it takes a year or two for a very popular story to hit Famous Story status. And many of the most excellent stories go somewhat undetected by the masses.
There are many good writers here and some who are less talented. Some writers add dozens of friends and promote themselves continually to heighten their profile on the site and gain recognition for their work. Others do not. Some have found a niche (that will remain unspecified here) to write about that turns on a certain segment of the readers here.
What you have to understand is that you can only write to the best of your ability and continue to learn and grow as a writer. If you have done that and there are a number of people who have read your work and liked it you have succeeded.
I congratulate DD on her achieving this number and all of the other talented Lush writers who amass high numbers. Their work was written not with the number of views in mind, but in an effort to tell a good story and write it well. The rest is icing on the cake.
As Principessa said, I wouldn't get too hung up on number of views as being the major determinant of success. There are so many factors that can increase or stall clickers/readers. I've posted stories that have crept along really slowly and others that blew out of the gate with big view numbers right away. Sometimes it's impossible to predict. I also agree that it takes some time to build a name and most of the famous stories out there have been around for at least a year as well.
I actually like to look at the number of times a story hits someone's favorites list. I'll look at my own tallies for my writing portfolio and see what stories have resonated more than others to get a better idea of where I've done well and where I've fallen flat. And - as someone else said - the comments can be pure gold in terms of getting that boost and feeling good about what we've put out there.
I like this thread. It made me look at my views to see how they are doing. It does seem that makes the biggest views. My Story “My Family Secret, Who Knew – Part one” is in the lead for 30,000 views coming in at 22,580 views. I’d like to have a famous story and seems it will be an one the first time.
Some of my stories have a LOT of views, at least to my standards. Anything that goes over 5,000 views makes me happy. It is hard with all the stories that come out to get a lot of views. My views have gone down in the past maybe two months because there are SO many Author’s now.
There is nothing wrong with having a lot of Author’s, I’m glad to see so many. It does make it hard to reach personal goals of getting like famous stories though.
I do think we should have a special badge for ones that get over 100,000 mark, like someone suggested. That’s incredible!!!!! Way to go, Ash.
Someone mentioned how often their story has been favorited? How do you find that into?
I haven't learned all the ins and outs of things yet.