u/JayneKnight

So, there are the critiques that are frustrating. The "did you even read my book?" or the "no, I'm not going to change the whole genre for you" type. There's the 'oops' ones, like "you used wondering instead of wandering" or "in chapter 4 he has brown eyes and chapter 6 he has green." There's the ones where you can see where they're coming from, and need to think about whether to change anything as a result.

And then there's the ones that hurt.

I got told earlier today that "only your bad guys have personalities". And now it's all I can think about, while my imposter syndrome kicks into overdrive.

Any critiques that knocked you off your feet?

Take the number of views on your first chapter, divide by total number of followers for that story. If you have more than one story, most recent or average, whichever you think is most representative. (If you manage to be exactly on the boundary, then dealer's choice which you pick.)

A lot of people come here to try and figure out if their fiction is behaving particularly well or badly. I know I did. Unfortunately, the answers often boil down to "no way to tell". How much marketing? Is it on meta? How much, how frequent, for how long? Which is true, but not helpful.

This isn't a perfect metric, for many reasons including:

- bots and random chance disproportionately affect low-view stories

- older stories will have higher chap 1 views than newer with exactly the same number of genuine readers

But... It's something?

What number would you estimate is a 'good' score? Enough to get a story onto RS? And 'very good', enough to ultimately get into S ranking?

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