Nov
4th
2022
And suddenly, I have written the end of Beyond Me! · 11:37pm Nov 4th, 2022
It's five chapters ahead, but that means in five chapters, we can get the sequel, titled [working title here]! That should get rid of some people from reading the story! But seriously, I was starting to think this fic would go on for a million words, but no! Instead, all I need to do it write another 200k word sequel and that's the end!
According to my schedule, the last chapter should be released on January 9th and the sequel should come out February 1st. And there will be a time jump of [insert years here] years. Let's go!
Yay
Not a sentiment you read often from an author; stop reading my work!
Still, though, it will be nice to see its end
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That was just a joke, because sequels always have less views than the original, by about 50-60%, unfortunately. And one that I took from the beginning of this Accursed Farms video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loBiZjo186Q
If I had the power, I would get more people to read the sequel than the original, but alas :c
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While I have no data myself my observations is rather similar. Sometimes it is just the tags. I remember one author complaining about how his *new* story got 70 likes in just a few weeks while his longer story (of multiple books) has 20ish. I was like "they're Equestria Girl stories" and this one wasn't (it now has 89 likes).
I tried to read them; the first chapter was this huge Tolkien info dump. I did not read Tolkien when he did it (having watched the movie I skipped ahead and enjoyed the old english version) and I didn't read this guys fic. I don't want a history lesson; I want a story...
Fortunately I have notice regular on-time updates means that book ">2" tends to retain 95% of readers of book 2. Often with older books gaining a slow steady amount.
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I believe I've only actually made one legitimate sequel story, and I saw around a 60% drop off, but that doesn't bother me, because I know many people read the first chapter of the first story and then stop. If I had to predict, I'd guess the sequel will have around 3500 or so views by its completion, which would fit a 60% drop off, but I would be happy if it got 2x as many as its predecessor. I will certainly never complain that a story gets popular, and consider even a hundred views on a one shot story to be great.
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It's even more impressive when you consider that most people nowadays don't even like reading when there are funny short videos all around us.