Fanfiction stats repeat
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igenlodeAnd to my great astonishment, I got hits on all my stories for
a second month running. If this keeps up, it will no longer even be noteworthy!
( Fanfiction stats July 2019)
Somebody suggested that it may be a side-effect of the death of Paul Darrow; the Blake's 7 stories on my account (along with "Lost and Found") are generally the ones left unviewed at the end of the month. Since they're the ones I considered too obscure/lacking in fan appeal to submit to zines at the time that's not too surprising, but I can see an upsurge of activity in the (rather dead) B7 section of fanfiction.net attracting attention to otherwise unread areas of that section.
Comparison with last month: "A Child of the Law" did much worse than usual (nobody read Ch2 at all, whereas the story normally gets a fair number of hits on both chapters!) "All the Rules Rearranged" continued to do well, with another eight people reading all through, and "An Unfair Advantage" did even better. The stats on "Blue Remembered Hills" look good, but nobody got beyond Ch6, which is even more damning than usual, as three or four people persevered that far (possibly hoping that when the 'main' story started it would get more interesting — it evidently didn't!)
"Count Philippe" didn't do quite so well as last month but still got a healthy six readers. I suspect "Don Juan Rehearsed" benefits, as usual, off the back of "An Unfair Advantage" (or possibly vice versa).
The stats for "If I Were Vicomte" look bad, but that does actually represent someone who read it all the way through, which is more than you can say for a number of the other stories (e.g. "Imprisoned by Fear", which unlike last month has a cluster of hits only on the first and last chapters).
"Lost and Found" gets the one vital hit that completes the set, and no more. Of the five viewers on "Paldit", only one read it all the way through (three bailed out by the third chapter), but that's still more than usual. "The Choices of Raoul" doesn't do so well as last month, with only two people reading all the way through, but it still has several hits on most chapters which is, I'm afraid, my metric of success.
The Frozen challenge story continues to get high traffic due to being part of the ongoing challenge (it also has a very high number of reviews from the same source). Nobody reached the last chapter of "The Sons of Éléonore", and only one of "To Ease Your Troubled Mind" and "Waiting in the Wings" respectively. And "Water-horse", as usual, gets a massive number of hits to the first chapter and a lot of them leaving in disgust. (What is wrong with that story?) However, it did get two people reading all the way through, which is actually better than in June.
Total overall views and visitors were somewhat lower than last month (829/473 versus 1078/511), but since both months were by definition somewhat anomalous I don't think one can draw many conclusions from that!
a second month running. If this keeps up, it will no longer even be noteworthy!
( Fanfiction stats July 2019)
Somebody suggested that it may be a side-effect of the death of Paul Darrow; the Blake's 7 stories on my account (along with "Lost and Found") are generally the ones left unviewed at the end of the month. Since they're the ones I considered too obscure/lacking in fan appeal to submit to zines at the time that's not too surprising, but I can see an upsurge of activity in the (rather dead) B7 section of fanfiction.net attracting attention to otherwise unread areas of that section.
Comparison with last month: "A Child of the Law" did much worse than usual (nobody read Ch2 at all, whereas the story normally gets a fair number of hits on both chapters!) "All the Rules Rearranged" continued to do well, with another eight people reading all through, and "An Unfair Advantage" did even better. The stats on "Blue Remembered Hills" look good, but nobody got beyond Ch6, which is even more damning than usual, as three or four people persevered that far (possibly hoping that when the 'main' story started it would get more interesting — it evidently didn't!)
"Count Philippe" didn't do quite so well as last month but still got a healthy six readers. I suspect "Don Juan Rehearsed" benefits, as usual, off the back of "An Unfair Advantage" (or possibly vice versa).
The stats for "If I Were Vicomte" look bad, but that does actually represent someone who read it all the way through, which is more than you can say for a number of the other stories (e.g. "Imprisoned by Fear", which unlike last month has a cluster of hits only on the first and last chapters).
"Lost and Found" gets the one vital hit that completes the set, and no more. Of the five viewers on "Paldit", only one read it all the way through (three bailed out by the third chapter), but that's still more than usual. "The Choices of Raoul" doesn't do so well as last month, with only two people reading all the way through, but it still has several hits on most chapters which is, I'm afraid, my metric of success.
The Frozen challenge story continues to get high traffic due to being part of the ongoing challenge (it also has a very high number of reviews from the same source). Nobody reached the last chapter of "The Sons of Éléonore", and only one of "To Ease Your Troubled Mind" and "Waiting in the Wings" respectively. And "Water-horse", as usual, gets a massive number of hits to the first chapter and a lot of them leaving in disgust. (What is wrong with that story?) However, it did get two people reading all the way through, which is actually better than in June.
Total overall views and visitors were somewhat lower than last month (829/473 versus 1078/511), but since both months were by definition somewhat anomalous I don't think one can draw many conclusions from that!
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Date: 2019-08-06 09:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-06 09:19 pm (UTC)I didn't really make matters any easier on myself either by deliberately choosing to write it from the viewpoint of the most 'boring' and unintellectual character, who gets very little interest in the fandom as versus the Blake/Avon and Avon/Vila sparring acts; I quite consciously wanted to give Gan the spotlight for a change and examine the Blake/Gan relationship, but of course that wasn't exactly the most fan-friendly option ;-(
But of course I'm absolutely delighted to hear of anyone new's getting hooked on the series, let alone through the medium of one of my stories! (The aspect of the original that I really didn't manage to reproduce was the humour, although I did try; there are far too many quotable lines in every episode...)
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Date: 2019-08-07 12:22 am (UTC)Me getting into B7 was embarassingly predictable: I love Sci-Fi, dystopias and the 70s, and I love seeing the themes of revolution and authoritarianism in fiction. Generally clever, original writing and characterization and the abundance of snark do help the matters too. If anything, I would probably got interested earlier if these series weren't so damn obscure...
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Date: 2019-08-18 10:15 pm (UTC)I'm afraid humour is simply much more difficult for fans to write than long angsty screeds (and the humour that *does* show up is usually more of the Bizarro variety rather than the sharp word-play of the original scripts; I've got a couple of the Bizarro zines, but jokes about Travis's southern belle wife, Avon's snooty family and Blake's conviction for molesting ducks start to get a bit... crude). https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Bizarro_Zine