Maprod

I understand that sinking feeling. "Your story is great! It's well-received and it's hitting the featured list, and everyone's talking about it!"
          
          ... And then... Not even 1/5th of them make it past the prologue. They just popped in, checked it out, thought about whether they would want to read this story or not, and then hopped off.
          
          ... Yeah. Stories that build on hype tend to have the cascading, downhill effect.  It's easy to see stories like that - An explosive amount of readers at the very first (few) chapter(s), and then suddenly it's like someone region-locked your story so only a select few from that huge bunch make it beyond the prologue. It trickles down further as more lose interest in the tale, and eventually it reaches even less than 10% of the original reads on the first. It trickles even more, and then it eventually... Stops.
          
          Your efforts, wasted. Your world seems like it was only worth that much - These teenagers simply don't like your story enough to pursue it any further.
          
          "Oh yeah, 783 reads on my prologue!- Oh shit, it dropped to 229 right after! :C" I feel you, man.
          
          But I don't stop.
          
          Why?
          
          I don't stop when people stop reading.
          
          Why?
          
          Those 200 readers are going to die off slowly and leave my story all alone.
          
          Why?
          
          ... Because my story deserves to exist.
          
          Because the things I've planned for it reach a stage these kids can only dream about, they can only fantasize it because it dwells within the stage of phantoms.
          
          My hand is halfway in the stage of phantoms. If I don't buck up and keep going... Who will?
          
          Keep going, Maprod. You're nearing the best parts of your story. Keep pushing forward.

Still waiting on that update ^^.

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIEND! HAVE A FANTASTIC 2015!

Hey, thanks for the votes!  Are you on a break then?

Hi there! Thanks for voting on Claudius' story in ancient Rome,and I hope it's still entertaining you! I've inserted a chapter (a new #2, in 3 parts) to show their life in the arm camp in Spain before the caravan assignment. Hope you like it....

10K! Congratulations and I hope you update soon!

You haven't updated ToV in a while. I hope you're all right.

I saw your comments for my book. Thanks so much! I'll reply when I'm feeling better and I'm not dealing with an incompetent phone. Although at this point it could be the user...

I can see your reply on the newsfeed and when I click through, it leads me to Cinilla's page. But I can't find the exact thread. You're right about fantasy and hf here on wattpad...but from what I saw, the fantasy ranking seemed to affect my ranking in other categories. idk wattpad is like a haunted house with too many unexplained things going on.

For some reason every time you vote, it gives me two notifications. But not two votes. :(