To all the authors out there on Royal Road, how long did it take for you to reach what you consider a significant following?

I'm, uh... I'm still working on it, I'll get back to you. 

I'm not quite there, but I am rolling with potential. It is starting to snow ball, though. I went up like three followers this week. I always knew it was going to be a slow burn for my style of story.

On my novel it took a few months to get to ten followers. It's been slowly increasing since then and now has 35 followers.

About two years ago I started posting. Each story has done progressively better than the last (except Zu Mari, we don't talk about Zu Mari) with my latest having surpassed 750 follows.

I'd consider that pretty good, myself, though it's still far from sufficient to sustain a career.

What do you consider a significant following? 

My first story here which, god, was not very good managed to get 70ish folks following along.

This one is around 150 now, with the nice folks who enjoy it.

But I dunno, at the end of the day, writing the story I am now is practice for future projects and possible publishing. I really appreciate that the people who enjoy my story can contribute to that and improve my skills as a writer by pointing out flaws. In return, I really do hope they have a good time reading what I'm currently capable of now.

That same goal could be met with 20 or 1,500 to be honest.

Id just like one person to join my discord xD
all call that a success for royal road then!

223 followers on one fiction took me about 1 year 6ish months of serialization. Biggest one in a long time was a shoutout by MelasD which generated me about 70+ over a week or two.

Fancyotter98 Wrote: Id just like one person to join my discord xD
all call that a success for royal road then!

Can we join each others? Pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase

R. Wrote: To all the authors out there on Royal Road, how long did it take for you to reach what you consider a significant following?

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This is all very encouraging! I've been here for 2 years but only started posting chapters a few days ago. I was wondering if getting 14 followers already was typical, and now I see it depends on the story. It's hard not to keep reloading your stats every day to see how things are progressing. I personally thing having a small number of avid readers is much better than having 100's of folks who follow and never engage.

Thanks for asking this question! I've been very curious about the same thing.

The fact I have more than 1 follower is shocking. My story may not have a huge following, stopping at around 60 followers but it's more than I deserve. It's taken me about 10 months, despite not doing anything. I didn't do review swaps or any advertising so I say it's a win. My story is definitely a love it or hate it kind of thing and it started as an inside joke. I'm glad other people are in on it now. 

6 followers in 2 days.

I'm glad that at least one person is interest at the moment. 

ugh, I have been here 9 days, and published 12 chapters, and my book (not me) only has 34 followers.

I have only 1 follower, and I am pretty sure it's Mr Merrigan because we talk a lot :P

Mai Wrote: I'm, uh... I'm still working on it, I'll get back to you. 

Lol same 

Err... 
I'm very happy with my 9 and I love every one of them.
Keep your chin up! 

Someday I will be able to answer your question. For now, I am just here to see others' answers. 

Took me roughly a month to reach 1k, but I had the benefit of getting onto Rising stars and that catapulted my numbers. 

R. Wrote: To all the authors out there on Royal Road, how long did it take for you to reach what you consider a significant following?

With this completely new account, I reached 4400 readers in two months.