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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angcuru" data-source="post: 1261952" data-attributes="member: 10948">One also has to take into account the size of updates in the given story hours.  Some have but a few paragraphs per post, with many posts.  Thus a writer who submits the same amount of text will have fewer posts, and therefore it will be at the top longer, thus less viewed.  So the whole "ranking" system is biased towards those who post updates in bits and pieces rather than in large chunks.What gets me to read a story hour?  The first thing would be consistent, lenghty updates.  I like to be shot with a 12 inch cannon of storytelling, not an automatic pellet gun.  Then we need in-depth characters and an entertaining style of writing.  After this comes a well-thought-out and involving plot to tie everything and everyone together.Story hours I have read and enjoyed:  G-Funk's City of Spider Queen/Bastion of Unborn/Broken SoulsJollydoc's Story Hour.Carnifex's Story Hour.(If there are more that are similarly written, or yours is written with said lengthy updates, let me know and I'll take a gander at it/them.)All are entertaining and have involved characters to the point that they have visible personalities and one can predict they way they may act.  Good gaming all around.My writing style for my Story Hour: Avarimorion Maranwen'tyen(Unwilling Son of the Dark, Unquenched Destiny) is somewhat different at it's core in that it is not so much a recording of an ongoing game, but a write-out of a story that is constantly floating around in my mind.  So far I've gotten but one reply, but I keep updating nonetheless.  I write more for my own enjoyment than anything else, and post my writing for others to see in case they find it entertaining, and so that I can possibly get some feedback.  That said, give it a look-see if you haven't already.(and most of you haven't)</blockquote>

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