Announcing our Elements competition

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Have you noticed more readers finding these competition entries? My story has three times more views than most of my comp entries! Maybe it's the 'mainstream' category I chose. 😈

Yup. I think it’s a really great theme with a lot of reader appeal.

Quote by LordCephius

Have you noticed more readers finding these competition entries? My story has three times more views than most of my comp entries! Maybe it's the 'mainstream' category I chose.

Competitions get a fairly high number of reads because entrants tend to read each other's for support. But yes the category can make quite a difference to reader volume, depending on how many are watching it.

I find it interesting that, besides the people who follow me, how different account names crop up on the Likes list when I venture into a new category. It's like some people gravitate towards one thing they particularly enjoy and don't stray much. So, as authors, something you may be proud of gets relatively low views if it's in a non-mainstream category. Such is the nature of Lush.

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So, as authors, something you may be proud of gets relatively low views if it's in a non-mainstream category. Such is the nature of Lush.

Yup. The story I have been most proud of has (despite the RR), after nearly 5 years, a grand score of (wait for it...) - 10 votes and 2189 reads. That'll teach me to publish in 'Novels' with tags of 'fantasy', 'history' and 'legend' lol... With an even lower score for Part 2, I lost the will to continue. Still trying to convert it to an actual novel, but never seem to find the time.

One day...