Update frequency - novel

[aarujarv]

I have a simple question I would like some feedback on. Although I am new to this community, my book itself is not that new. From prior experience, I learned that it is not a really good idea to make it all available at once. What would be a reasonable amount of updates per week so that people would not feel over-saturated?

[WillowTree]

I started with daily updates then switched to three days a week and both of those were pretty well received by my audience

[WolfUnderTheMoon89]

Uhm... I'm at 4 parts a week. Tuesday, thursday, Saturday and Sunday
(right now 3x, in two weeks that goes to 4x. My first novel also had 4x a week)

[Prisim]

I did daily when both my books first launched on Tapas to try to draw in the audience, then dialed it down to twice a week. So far that seems to have worked out well for me since it gives me time to break my chapters into Tapas friendly parts.

[shfra13]

I personally did once every other day (for one book) and twice a week (for another). But, if your novel is finished, do update daily for two weeks, and then consider to schedule 2 - 4 updates a week.

Also, maybe consider the length of the chapters. If each chapter is really short, 3 - 4 a week is alright. If each chapter is kind of long, maybe consider 1 - 2 per week.

[MeltingCORE]

I would personally update every week and then bi-weekly if you have a lot of pre-written content to share!

[amberberry]

I update once a week with quite long episodes (usually around 1k words).
But I think it's more important to be consistent than to update often even though frequent updates definitely do help.

[foxnflames]

I did once a week at the very beginning then I upped it to every other day. Now I do 3x a week, starting this week. Each ep is about 1k but I’m a decent bit ahead to keep up with that

[uglygirlnextdoor]

t new. From prior experience, I learned that it is not a really good idea to make it all available at once. What would be a reas

Depends honestly on your work and how much time it takes you to REALLY finish an episode and the end result is satisfactory for yourself. The engagement with your audience must not be broken. So for example my novel i will update once a week, which seems realistic for me. I have so far a month guarantee that I will not fail the agreement I promised to who ever follows me, and an other work is a daily challenge of a poem a day.

You have to analyze what suits you better, just don't miss on your word, there is nothing more disappointing to arrive at a certain day expecting to continue read that comic/novel and there is nothing new.

[nostalgicroxas]

I alternate between two a month, or one a week, or two a week. Keep them short - Tapas was made for "digestable" sizes. So if you make your reading 400-800 words, that's fine. It does allow up to iirc 1500 words an upload, but I've found that gets me less viewers.

[uglygirlnextdoor]

oh nice tip I was posting around 1.2K words an episode, to be far I do illustrate my stories as well XD

[nostalgicroxas]

My novel Nearly There Nicely has always been with two uploads a week, and the first eh 20 chapters, are "as many words as I could fit" more or less per update. I don't have consistent readers that I can tell. I have subs, yes, and a fair amount of likes, but unless I delete everything and start over, there's no way to go back and amend the chapters to have less word counts in them and then squeeze in chapters between existing uploaded chapters to make up for this..... I hope that made sense lol I'm tired. What I mean is that I think the large dump of words for so many chapters has hindered me in getting readers vs the side story that has strictly 400-800 word counts (with one or two that jump to 1000 for just one update or so). The story with smaller word counts has more attention on it even though it updates twice a month, so half as less updates Tapas attention span is weird.

[shfra13]

I think it's because it is easier to digest shorter chapters, and if the update isn't as frequent, readers can basically leave it in their library for, say, a month and wouldn't be overwhelmed when they come back to read it. Also, for me personally, I back off when I see long chapters. Reading on Tapas makes me feel like I have to commit to a chapter since the app won't "bookmark" the last sentence I read.

[cherrystark]

I like to do every other day as a writer. It keeps up engagement but also gives you time to keep up creating content. As a reader, too frequent updates just gives me too many notifications, so I might not tune back in. Too long between updates, I might stop reading because I've forgotten everything that happened in the previous chapter. Once a week is my limit, as a reader, to keep engagement.

[GD_Cruz]

My book started on Tapas this November and I'm following the advice I'd gotten from the forums and posting daily chapters for the whole month. Then eventually I'll lower the frequency down to three a week so I have enough time to keep writing while still being able to edit.