My Numbers Are Up

Introduction

I was wondering whether to post about my latest milestone as I feel a most

whiney braggart 😸😸😸 doing it, but I thought I would do it anyway, so apologies if I offend anyone with this.

My Numbers

As I have said before I am nothing special, but I do post a lot of stories on Vocal, and today finished compiling my latest poetry anthology, so I put in quite a lot of hard work. If you divide 60,067 by 2,570 you see that I only average 23 reads per story, which is not very much, but I do have a lot of unread stories and seventy with over a hundred reads, and my top ten have over three hundred reads each, with the top one hitting 1,484.

My top ten most-read stories are not my best, and number three is a clickbait embarrassment, but I leave it there as a reminder of how readers can be fooled. I tried a similar one and it got three reads, c'est la vie.

The thing is hitting this many reads is just something anyone can do.

Hitting the first thousand is a lot more important because you have kept on writing and people have taken notice.

Then you hit five thousand and you know you have scaled another even bigger mountain.

Ten thousand makes you feel you have conquered the world, and twenty thousand is your Everest.

After that people are not too impressed, because you are obviously successful and those numbers are just what you do.

I will be pleased for myself if I hit a hundred thousand reads, and that may be caused by a piece going viral.

I see a lot of writers pushing story after story, usually microfiction and poetry and that makes me hate Vocal's notifications. These Vocal Creators outpublish me and all power to them, but I wish I could throttle those notifications, that is what my subscription feed is for.

Conclusion

My numbers have been built up over four years and could stop at any point, but I bet in three years time there will be a lot more Vocal Creators with over sixty thousand reads.

Thank you so much for reading, now back for some real writing.