175-day statistics

Since January 4, as I started to keep statistics, a lot of time has passed (175 days). What do we have.

The plans for 2020 were to write from 500,000 to 1,000,000 words. Just to develop the habit of writing every day, well, at least every week at least 10,000 words.

To learn how to express the emotions of characters.

Exit this year at 500 collections.

Collect the total amount of views of all novels in 1 million.

Write several novels on topics that interest me as an author.

Check how the system works - https://forum.webnovel.com/d/34886-how-long-does-it-take-to-reach-a-million-views-for-an-original-novel

What do we have today, after 175 days, 190 days are left until the end of the year (the year began with a countdown from January 4, 2020):

Data as of January 4, 2020:

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Finished Stories - 1

Dropp - 1

Ongoing - 5

Collections 286 (minus 1)

Views - 414, 840 (+1510)

Words 333 160 (+1040) (+908)

Chapters 310 (+3) (+1)

Data as of May 28, 2020:

Finished Stories - 4

Dropp - 1

Ongoing - 4

Collections 453 (+166)

Views 974,072 (+559,232) + (35.85K Views - from drop novel)

Words 438,990 (+105,83)

Chapters 461 (+151)

Due to coronavirus in the world and in our country, and corononeurosis, productivity has fallen, from an average of 1,500 words per day to 604 words. Plus, I rewrote two novels, I deleted part of the chapters, cut some, added something (so the words were cut).

Of the existing novels, only one has ratio 440, the rest of 1000 or 2200 or so.

The text block has become a little better, but still, there is still a lot of work on polishing. The texts do not have enough emotions to immediately attract the reader.

As an author, I love accuracy, numbers, it's interesting to me, facts, philosophy, to understand the ins and outs of the character, what he thinks, why he takes such actions. But in novels, you need fewer numbers, facts, shorter less information, more manifestations of feelings, emotions, you need action, more monologues.

Plus the title page - I draw it myself, on the vector graphics, on the one hand it's good that no one needs to pay for copyright. On the other hand, they are not as attractive as those drawn on special graphic editors.

In addition, during the time I write, I came to the conclusion that success comes to those who have:

1. high-quality, easy to read text2. the meaning of the plot is not lost3. frequency of updates (at least 3-4 chapters per week)4. the number of words in the chapter should be at least 1500 - 25005. quality content6. The title page is less important (than quality writing and quality content)7. self-promotion skill8. the presence of a large number of friends so that they can give promotion stones, the number of collections, and the number of views (Tomoyuki - thanks for the tip).

Well, the path to enlightenment is still long ... so you need to learn again and again.

While you can achieve your goal in terms of views, this seems an achievable goal. But the number of collections is a more difficult task. Then how to write 500,000 words, not to mention 1,000,000 words, and this year seems not to be a sale. If, perhaps, in the remaining 190 days it is not possible to catch up and write the remaining 395,000 words!

But for this, you need to write 2079 words a day!

So far, these are the statistics results!