Scrib'd numbers update

Thought I'd share my numbers if you haven't been over there in a while. And why would you have been over there? At least to check my numbers. Anyway.

I am at 484 right now on total reads. Approaching 500. I've done no promotion of it other than my wife and sister-in-law linking to the first part from their Facebook pages more than a month ago. Readership really spiked on those days. But other than that and mentioning it here there has been nothing done to let people know about it. That's why it's so odd to me that people find it. No one tells me whether or not they like it, but they find it. Just the last week I've had eight reads. Not a huge number, but one I'm happy with.

I probably won't talk about Scrib'd again until we pass the big 500 mark. That may be soon. It may be later. But I'll late you know when 16 more readers stumble across me.

Scrib'd and some WIP progress

We are at 69 percent completed on Chasing Filthy Lucre. I am in an in-between stage right now. We've passed Rung Nine on the outline but aren't quite to Rung Ten. We are in a bit of a transition phase. I think the next time I write I will definitely be writing what is supposed to take place in Rung Ten, but it's taken longer to get there than I thought it would. I had an idea on how to bring an earlier character back into the story and have him play a crucial role. That somewhat extended Rung Nine and added about 1000 words to the story. Not going to complain about that. Still making progress, so that's good. And the longer I can make this the better.

I still check my Scrib'd numbers every day. Sorry to report that they've stalled a bit. Haven't seen any movement for a couple of days. I know I should promote the story in other places, but I have some self-confidence issues when it comes to my writing. I have a hard time sharing it with people I know. Strangers, no problem. But I always worry about what people I know will think. That's why I haven't linked to the Scrib'd stuff from my Facebook page. Gina has and that's the day I got the highest number of reads. I also saw a spike when my sister-in-law linked to Make it a Double. I know that pointing people to it would help get people interested in my work, but I'm just not ready yet to put it out there like that. And I wish I was.

Something to read

I have mentioned in the past that I attend a writer's group a couple of times a month. One of the writers has started posting stuff on Scrib'd. Her name's Elaine and she's good. Her style is very different than mine but she's very readable.

Check out the two stories she's posted here.

End of day Scrib'd update

Well, best day at Scrib'd so far. A whopping 57 reads total. Now if that means 57 readers I'm not sure. I know Gina said that when she read it there she saw the numbers increase by three so it may be a bit off. But it doesn't matter to me. I ended the day with 112 reads on Part One and 233 reads overall. Happy about that. Hoping the momentum keeps going tomorrow. We'll see.

Scrib'd numbers heading in the right direction

UPDATE: It's 12:48 here and I have passed the 200 reader mark. The count is at 208 right now. We have 87 reads on Part One.

Thanks to a little Facebook promotion from my wife, and I am choosing to believe a good story, Part One of my WIP is very quickly approaching 100 readers. And if current trends hold and I get about 10 readers today then I should pass 200 overall readers sometime this afternoon. That means I'll have had 200 reads on all the pieces I have up over there.

I'm happy. Maybe I should be hoping for more, but for right now I'm happy. In my head I have done some quick calculations and if those 75 readers would have paid $1 for the completed piece I would have made roughly $26 through Amazon's Kindle store. That's since last Wednesday, only six days. If the pace holds and I get to about 90 reads by end of the day tomorrow that'd be $31.50 in a week.

The one dollar price is the one I was going to use if this stayed a novella. With the additions I am going to make this could spin closer to 50k words. At that point I'd feel OK pricing it at the $2 to $2.99 range. Here's the breakdown with those prices.

90 sales at $2 each would equal $63.

90 sales at$2.99 each would equal $188. The jump here is that when things get priced $2.99 or above at Amazon they royalty rate cranks up to 70%. Everything under that is 35%. I'd be happy with anything, but if I were to get this story long enough to feel comfortable pricing it at $2.99 then in a month I could make $750.

I know, before anyone says anything, that these are big assumptions. I don't know how well I'd sell. Or if I'd sell at all. But it's fun to speculate and think about it anyway. Because I'm encouraged by the numbers I see on Scrib'd.

If you've read it, thanks. Appreciate that. You're helping me a lot. If you haven't read it, why wait?

Scrib'd success

I have to say that I am much happier with the results on the new upload at Scrib'd. It's been up less than a week and there are already at 43 reads. The first piece that's posted there has about a month and a half head start and it has 111 reads. So it's not quite half of the first piece yet, but it's close. And it's only been up for three days. Not bad. So if you're one of the people whose clicked and read Part One of my WIP, thanks. If you haven't, click the link on the right. Just keep in mind that with my lightbulb moment the other day things are going to change a bit. I'll be adding a scene that should give a little more depth to my main character. And I'll be adding a bit of a reveal near the end. But the guts of the story will remain the same.

Scrib'd success

I'll say that I have been a little disappointed in the number of people who've seen my story I have up over at Scrib'd. I see that other writers have had several thousand views. And those aren't the novel excerpts from NY publishing houses. These are the writers like me who are just trying to make a go of it. There are a few with 10,000-plus reads so I have hope. Right now I am just over 70 reads, and I know most of them are from me. But I haven't given up yet since I am going to try and promote the novella there. Anyway, here is the piece I have up on Scrib'd now if you wanted to take a look but haven't yet.


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