Reach the Open Space seems about right: 100+ reviews for a one-shot is excellent for anyone not named nonjon.

Given the quality of the storytelling, Song of the Trees has only a third of the reviews and page counts as I'd have expected. Infrequent updates, long chapters, and a nonstandard pairing (for its time) work against you in this regard.

While there's no shortage of exceptions (Partially Kissed Hero, Knowledge is Power, and several others) 1000+ reviews seems a sort of landmark that places one's novel among the greats in the fandom. Speaking objectively, I believe Song of the Trees belongs in that list.

 

Yeah, Tinn, a review ratio of 0.27% for a WIP is unusually low. Your readers at ffn are some ungrateful bitches. Most of the novel-length stories in this thread don't fall below 0.35% or so until they've been completed or abandoned for a long time. That may not sound like much, but it's the difference between 461 and 600 reviews. Ah well. It's still an awesome story, as Pers said.

@nonjon and LT2000 - Wow. Just wow. Here's a little something from Tara Sue Me's Twilight profile, just so you guys can feel some humility too

 

I don't think anything involving Twilight could ever make me feel humility.

 

A lot of them are pithy flames though.

 

Eh, what the hell. Mock away.

1. Prophecies, Secrets and Lies:
55, 387 words, 15 chapters, 43 reviews, 31,247 hits, 22 C2s, 33 favs, 22 alerts.

2. The Sneaking Serpent Walks:
71,207 words, 20 chapters, 60 reviews, 15,682 hits, 10 C2s, 18 favs, 23 alerts.

3. An Awful Shadow:
85,218 words, 22 chapters, 80 reviews, 21,926 hits, 6 C2s, 25 favs, 20 alerts.

4. The Power He Knows Not:
108,297 words, 27 chapters, 131 reviews, 34,846 hits, 9 C2s, 35 favs, 56 alerts.

User stats:
55 favs, 92 alerts, 143 signed reviews, 320,109 total words archived, 80,027 average number of words per story, 13,489 total hits to profile page.

Not uber impressive, but *shrugs*. And the stats for my collaborative crossover:

Harry Potter and the Discworld:
39,089 words, 14 chapters, 139 reviews, 47,428 hits, 35 C2s, 223 favs, 307 alerts,

User stats:
17 favs, 85 alerts, 3,694 total hits to profile page

It's a little embarrassing that a crossover that came about from a drunken conversation is currently doing better than any of my serious stories, but never mind.

 

This caught my eye. Is there a correlation between length of chapters and reviews? I would have thought that longer chapters were desirable, since it's always nice to be able to read uninterrupted for fifteen minutes or so, but perhaps this opinion isn't the majority?

 

I've been told (and what I see supports) that if your goal is lots of reviews on a story, for a fixed amount of text, there's a sweet spot of around 4-5k words/chapter that you want to hit. Much shorter, and people aren't moved enough by what you write to leave a review. Too long, and those who review would have given you two or three had you made your chapters shorter.

 

This. When I was writing my chapters averaged around 10-12k and very few people discussed the first two scenes in a chapter. By the time they reached the end, only one or two parts were on their minds - the lead up to and the end. Writing shorter chapters definitely gets more reviews, but, personally, is a more disruptive read.

 

I have given up on the readers of fanfiction on ff.net. How this is possible I will never know or hope to.

 

You are on the favorites list of 28 members. You are on the author alert list of 107 members. You have submitted a total of 20 signed reviews. Total words archived : 36,630 words. Average number of words per story : 9,158 Total hits to Profile Page : 5,045

The vast majority of you beat my total words archived with just one of your fics. My penis has never been smaller.

 

Cool thread. I've always wondered what some of my favorite fics were raking in stats-wise. You guys are awesome! And some of you are definitely not getting enough credit for your work...

There is a Twilight fan fic with 17,000 + reviews ?!? I'm not hardcore on the Twilight hate wagon; I've read it, and it has its place in the world...but this really makes me worry about the future of our society.

For my only story, Out of the Night:

Chapters: 24
Word Count: 79,026 (probably take off two thousand for AN's)
Reviews: 871
Hits: 147,561
C2's: 111
Faves: 693
Alerts: 1,031

General User Stats
You are on the favorites list of 63 members.
You are on the author alert list of 162 members.
You have submitted a total of 13 signed reviews.
Total words archived : 79,026 words.
Average number of words per story : 79,026
Total hits to Profile Page : 7,803​

Reviews make me happy, and I just posted a new chapter; so I'll get maybe 30 more over the next week or so. Not the most impressive by a long shot, but it's my first story, so I'm pretty pleased. ​

 

Never read Twilight, but I have seen Dirty Dancing. Here's a head-scratcher from the HP-universe. Sort of.

Last Dance by Amynoelle and Heaven - Reviews(12946) - H/Hr
SPOILERS: Books 1 - 5 Contents: R
Description: A soap opera style fic about the next generation of characters from the core couples of Dirty Dancing. There's still lots of H/Hr in here!
Published: 05/06/05 Updated: 27/12/09 Status: In Progress
Genre: Romance / Humor Words: 2083330 Chapters: 323 - LATEST

Nearly 13,000 reviews! I've never had the urge to try and read any of it, but as in the case of Severitus and Harry/AlastorMoody slash, it seems the nuttier the premise, the more crazies come out of the woodwork to lap it up and beg for more.

EDIT: Any bets on whether the phrase "Nobody puts Hermy in the corner" is in that fic?

 

Raining Ink :

Yep, 17385 thousand reviews and here's a sample of these reviews:

Read it. Feel the genius in this gem of literature.

 

Average words per chapter: 3741
Average reviews per chapter: 470

If that isn't the sweet spot I don't know what is.

 

I think you have confused "sweet" with "fucking ridiculous."

 

I'm curious as to what Shezza's stats look like now.

 

Why not? These are just my big four Naruto stories. When it comes to Naruto, though, these numbers are smalltime as LT2 showed.

Black Sheep: 177,472 words, 21 chapters, 1,514 reviews, 591,365 hits, 274 C2s, 1,295 favorites, 1,411 alerts.

Sounding in the Dark: 51,482 words, 11 chapters, 727 reviews, 207,434 hits, 122 C2s, 609 favorites, 702 alerts.

Bushido no Jutsu: 33,741 words, 8 chapters, 270 reviews, 102,535 hits, 101 C2s, 297 favorites, 436 alerts.

Dueling Harmonies: 32,956 words, 5 chapters, 343 reviews, 63,979 hits, 68 C2s, 310 favorites, 453 alerts.

User Stats: 550 favorites listings, 567 alerts, 457,432 archived words, and 174,997 profile hits.

 

That's not really popular for Naruto fiction. Trust me, you look at something like Team 8 and your epenis will shrivel like an overripe squash.