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Gay Authors Reading Report for Jan 2021 to Sep 2021
By Myr
This week's writing article is going to be a little different than usual. Instead of giving you tips or insights into different aspects of writing, I'm going to give you some insights into what people are actually reading here at Gay Authors. As an engineer, I'm what is called 'data driven'. Whenever possible, I try to use actual data and good reasoning to predict project expectations of how things are going to go. Obviously, the best we can do is identify past trends and make reasonable- 9 comments
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By jamessavik · Posted
One of the things that is consistent in my writing is that many (probably most) of my characters are military BRATs (Born, Raised and Transferred). We're a little different in the way we think, act and are very often that new guy. Someone asked me why that is, and I guess it's because it is the people I know. I look for stories about us but rarely see them. I'm NOT surprised to see that military tag trending so high. You really might be surprised how many of us are BRATs or even v -
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Oh. just to put things in scale. This is the read count for 20 stories only per genre. We have 5507 Stories in the System. 5474 have at least 1 view this year. Genres: Drama has 2522 stories, Romance as 2436 stories, Fantasy has 937 stories. The view count you see is for 20 of those stories.
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@Parker Owens helped me tremendously with narrowing down the sub-genres and refining the definitions. There are a ton more that I'm sure could be included, but I hope we hit the major ones. -
@Headstall, a few things... the "north American" tag is probably another catch all, as most stories/readers are in the United States. Ergo, more stories have that tag that many others. Outside of "gay". So that tag is probably incidental as well. As for people trying things outside their comfort zone... Writing a great 'book blurb' in your description and properly labeling things allows people to make that leap. And if name recognition in one genre brings readers to another to try new
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Something else that comes to mind, @Myr. I'm a poetry guy, and while I haven't written any for a number of months, I love reading it... and will write it again someday. I would love to see Poetry as a genre (or sub-genre), as opposed to creative non-fiction(I know there is a need for it as well; maybe it could be a sub-genre?). I've often wondered if CN-F is confusing, or potentially unappealing to some readers who might enjoy poetry. I might not be making my point well, so I will just say I wou -
Very interesting. Thanks @Myr . First of all, this helps me see the Drama category as a catch all. Almost all of my stories have that genre selected, but there is at least one other genre selected as well. It really doesn't tell the reader much, so I can see it working better as a sub-genre. Something came to mind as I poured through this data and considered how important it is to tag correctly. More than once I have had readers say... I wasn't going to read this because it was tagged as paranor
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By Carlos Hazday · Posted
Fascinating info, Myr. As a CPA, numbers and statistics are in my wheelhouse. You make me want to go check all my stories for how I categorized them, but I'll wait until you roll out the new ones. I better have tagged my last story as military though! I mean something set at the Air Force Academy with a bunch of cadets... I think Soap Opera would work for my CJ series LOL The president of the Washington Scandals Rugby Team once compared my series to Tales of the City, and that's the ultim -
I'm seriously impressed by all this data, and can only imagine the work involved in compiling it. I have to admit to underutilizing genres and tags, simply because a lot of the time I'm not sure where my stories fit, so they go into the drama category by default. I'm looking forward to the new sub-genres and seeing how they fit into my stories. Thank you for taking the time and effort to gather and report this to us.
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