Just had a look at both your stories and added to my reading queue. Hope they reach the famous mark soon. ?
Thank you both, and anyone else who gives them a go.
They're slowly creeping that way. Once I get them over the bar, only 11 more to go! LOL The ones that are already over 20k are the only ones I consider viable candidates.
"Nude Holly Day" could potentially be a second Legendary story for me someday. It's at 68k.
Double congratulations on having a "Legendary" story too - that's a real achievement.
I have one already, and another on 99k, so nearly there! I can't stop myself checking almost every day lol.
Steadily creeping that way. Double Dip is only 388 off, and Recycled is 216. The next story in line, Labor Day, just edged over 28k. It's actually moving faster than the other two due to the popularly searched tag "pregnant" and the in-law angle that's benefiting from new readers of my restored I.F. stories.
At this rate, it may catch up with the two leaders. LOL
I love that you're tracking these so carefully. Really should do something like it with mine...
This is actually lazy tracking, compared to what I used to do a couple years back. LOL I was doing quarterly tracks all of my stats, for all of my stories, on three different sites.
It's one of the tools I used to help determine which site(s) a particular story would go on, how I would present it, and in what category I'd place it. My "Her Flock" trilogy, for example, went up on the other sites as a single submission trilogy, rather than three separate stories. Fewer ( or no ) categories on those sites, and stories that short don't perform well. When combined, they did fine for breaking into an entirely new genre for me.
My lists have grown so long that the last quarterly track took me around four hours to complete in Feb. '16. The effort vs. reward scales had tipped. I've been thinking about getting back into it, because one of those sites now has one click download of all your stats in a spreadsheet importable CSV file, cutting the time for tracking that site down to virtually nothing.
I made a request in the suggestion and improvements thread for the same thing here. ~_^
The third site uses a display method which would allow me to grab those stats in an importable fashion with a little one time coding work, so if Lush had a stats download option, I could go back to tracking everything and have it all done and looking pretty in a half an hour or so. I could also add a couple of columns to my Lush spreadsheet and have it automatically generate the views per month and estimated Famous/Legendary date.
The way things look right now, after the wave of stories listed in my previous post hit those lists, there will be a few years of hiatus. Then in 2025-2028, I'll have another wave, including two more making it to Legendary.
That's assuming I don't read one of those old stories and come up with an idea for a sequel to it. Writing a sequel could cause any opening story to surge, and then rise a little more quickly thereafter.
I'll quit stat-nerd rambling now. LOL
"Mom's Second Chance" just crossed the threshold to become my #10 famous story. I have 6 between 28k and 30k right now.
If I'd finish something and get it out, it would probably help push others over the line.
I HAVE TWO AF STORIES,but I finf it strange that one of them has the second lowest score of any of my 200+ stories
As predicted, Stocking Stuffer crossed the 30k threshold today, bringing me up to 12 famous stories.
Barring some surges or a new story going gangbusters, that will probably be it for several months. The next crop has been varying from February to April for a famous date.
I'll probably still update this once a month just to see how different factors affect the monthly view numbers.
Damn, it's gonna take me a while if they keep going backwards, I had one story go over the 30,000 and was watching the other one gradually get there, but then I suddenly went from 29,876 to 29,001.
Are you sure you didn't transpose the the 8 and 9 in your head when you were looking at it earlier? That's an easy enough mistake to make — even multiple times. Five digits seems to be where the brain's tendency to take shortcuts kicks in when reading numbers.
I don't know why they would adjust view counts, and even if they did, I think I would have seen it somewhere in my own numbers.
Advertise them in your signature, and give them a shout-out on Twitter/Facebook/Etc. It's not a huge boost, but every little bit helps when you're that close. If you really want to push them, and have an idea for one, write a sequel, parallel story, or something similar, and link back to the original. For a lesser boost, anything new in the same category can attract new reads to the older story. For that matter, any new work posted should bring reads on your whole story file.
Apparently, my math was off. I assume by one. Guess prolific will happen with whatever the next story I post in a new category is.
Rough, time consuming start to the new year. My autistic son just turned 18, and I'm buried in paperwork for guardianship, social security, etc.
