Come to think of it, for quite a few big-shot authors, reaching Premium on the first day was perfectly normal...
For someone as pure as me, all I could do was envy them.
When I started this book, the results were terrible. After getting a recommendation, it gained just over a hundred bookmarks in a week. My face turned green.
For a while, I wanted to start a new project and write some First-Rank Forceful King-style face-slapping wish-fulfillment story.
But later, I decided to forget it. I'd just follow my own ideas and take it slowly. I'd see how things went after two million characters.
When the book went paid, my average subscriptions seemed to be a little over eleven hundred. I couldn't remember clearly myself...
Actually, it was a little better than I'd expected. Though I had thirty-seven thousand bookmarks when it went paid, the bookmark-to-subscription ratio was too ghastly to look at.
Then last week, before I got a day of app recommendations, all I hoped for was a slight increase. Unexpectedly, my average subscriptions skyrocketed, and I was completely dumbfounded...
And then today, I finally crossed the Premium threshold.
Of course I was thrilled. This result might be nothing much to others, but it meant something different to me. After all, this was my first book to make it into Premium, and first times always left the deepest impression.
Enough nonsense. Let's talk about updates.
I heard many readers used auto-subscribe and never paid attention to the word count, so just look at the page count instead.
I was too lazy to split chapters. Sometimes I also felt that breaking them apart ruined the flow. Every chapter was between four thousand and over ten thousand characters.
I'd write as much as I could. There would be at