Pimp Poll: Updating Schedules?

[seasong]

This poll has two parts, multiple choices allowed.

1. How often do you update your story hour? Every day, a few days a week, weekly, monthly, annually, or just "when I feel like it"? Post specifics or special cases below (along with a link to your story hour ).

2. Finally, how often do you CHECK story hours? Hourly? Daily? Weekly? Monthly? When you feel like it?

The main reason for this poll is the second part (I'm curious about reader behavior), but I thought I'd provide an opportunity for readers to find story hours that matched their desires as well.

For myself, I post as close to daily as I can (excepting weekends), but I read a few days a week so I can catch up to everything in batches. The slower the updates, the harder it is for me to keep up .

 

[Lazybones]

I used to post almost daily, but I've fallen off in my writing and now post 2-3 times a week.

I read a few stories whenever I see there's an update (Piratecat, Sepulchrave II). I'm familiar with about a dozen other stories and occasionally will pick one up and catch up on what I've missed. For most stories, I find I can skip a month or two and only have 4-5 posts to catch up on.

I also occasionally hawk this board at the other sites I frequent (mostly RPG and computer game sites), to drum up new readers.

 

[Drawmack]

*shameless plug* Those who update regularly, we would love to have your update schedule posted to http://www.suryvial.com

 

[SpaceBaby Industries]

I find that some semblance of regular posting greatly enhances my enjoyment of a Story Hour. Seasong, your story hour is an excellent merging of both regular updates and excellent writing quality. I can think of many story hours that provide one or the other (many are the latter but lack the former), but not both.

The well written albeit intermittent story hours are still worth reading of course. Given that the entire effort is voluntary by the writer and free for me to read, I don't want to give the impression I am demanding anything. I do find shorter gaps between posts help a great deal in keeping the story flowing in my mind, and thus improve my overall impression of the work in question.

 

[seasong]

*shameless plug* Those who update regularly, we would love to have your update schedule posted to http://www.suryvial.com

Note: I can't find a way to do large batches on this site. I update almost daily. For me to put my updates here, I would need to be able to tell the calendar "Tu-W-Th every week for the rest of the year" without actually clicking on every single day and inputting it for every single time I'm likely to do an update. It works well for one-time or few-times events, but I'm not sure a regularly updated story hour works very well with the interface.

 

[barsoomcore]

I don't update nearly enough, and I know my readership suffers for it. Last update garnered not many views and no replies at all.

On the other hand, it sure drives me crazy when a fave SH doesn't get updated!

 

[Insight]

Newbie Alert!

I'm still rather new to this Story Hour thing. I've been writing one - my first - since January, I think. It's going pretty well, but I don't have very many readers. I think it's because Supers is not a hot topic for the readers on this board. It pales in comparison to D&D-type stories; I have no illusions about that!

Anyway, I post 2-3 times a week, although this week has been pretty heavy since I'm finishing up a thread. I'm writing pretty much for myself and a handful of readers who I know read my Story Hour.

I'm going to start some new stories fairly soon, and I hope my loyal readers will follow along!

 

[Tokiwong]

Your story kicks ass Insight I am down with it 100% sorry to hijack the thread

 

[Silver Moon]

I try to update the story hour prior to the next game while it is still fresh on my mind and also so that any player who missed the game will know what happened. We play for 3 hours every Sunday night, and each game usually translates into 2 or 3 chapters of the Story Hour. A chapter gets done around every other day, so that works out to 2-3 posts per week.

As to checking, it varies a lot depending on what is going on, so I didn't check that on the poll.

 

[arwink]

I try to update one of my storyhours once a week, but realistically it ends up being much more haphazard than that once work and real life get involved. After I finish moving this week, I'm going to experiment with writing larger chunks before hand and posting them piece by piece.

The other is definately a "when I feel like it" update schedule, largely because the game itself happens so haphazardly.

I check storyhours whenever the e-mails saying there's been a new post show up in my mailbox. That usually means every day.