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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1813646" data-attributes="member: 99">I've seen a fair bit of anecdotal evidence that shorter, more frequent updates are more popular than longer, less frequent updates.  So I tried to adopt that style for a while with my story hour.  Didn't work for me.I found that when I had short blocks of time to write I just couldn't put myself in the right frame of mind to do it and did other things instead.  When I had longer blocks of time to write I wrote longer updates instead of short ones.The obvious solution to this would be to take the long updates that I'd written and break them up into smaller chunks to post over several days.  But I always felt like I was holding out on my (few) readers by doing that.  Why deny them the portion of the story that is already written just so that I can put up a mini-update every day for several days for the sake of keeping the SH near the top.Actually I did this recently during a week when I had little work to do.  I posted a long update every day that week and I got a lot of good response from it.  And my "views count" rocketed upwards dramatically.  Heck, I even outpaced Darklone's ability to read the thing!  So I may try and do this more often if I've got an opportunity.  But mostly I just post when I can.  At this point the readers I've got have stuck with me for the very long haul and know that I will sometimes dry up for a month or so.  But they also know that I love the Story Hour too much to give up on it entirely.</blockquote>

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