Update Schedule Poll
- Two weekly stories and one bi-weekly story 133
- Two weekly stories and two bi-weekly stories on rotation 21
- Two weekly stories and a third vote 12
- One multi-week, one weekly, one bi-weekly 9
So, I've been giving my update schedule a think since I've been back from my vacation. I don't particularly mind my current set up now, but I wanted to get some feedback from all of you on what you would want because there are other options that you might prefer more.
There will be a second poll once this one concludes that will decide between the most voted for option and maintaining my current schedule. The options are the following:
Two weekly stories and one bi-weekly story: Two of my stories would maintain their current update speed and word count but a third story would be updated every two weeks for a large chapter. My chapters tend to be around 5-8k words long, so the bi-weekly update would be closer to 12-15k.
The bi-weekly spot would be left to a vote, but it could be temporarily filled by another story. An example would be for Going Native -- if there's a large scale battle that I can't fit within 6k works, then it would be the bi-weekly for that update. Then it would go back to the story that gets voted for the bi-weekly slot.
The update schedule would look like this: Story 1 - Story 2 then next week would be: Story 1 - Story 2 - Story 3
Two weekly stories and two bi-weekly stories on rotation: With this choice, I would be starting a fourth story. The fourth story would be decided by a vote with a list of ideas that I have. I would maintain my three chapters a week update schedule, but the two bi-weekly stories would switch each update.
So it would be Story 1- Story 2 - Story 3 one week then the next it would be: Story 1- Story 2 - Story 4 then back to Story 1- Story 2- Story 3.
Two weekly stories and a third vote: This one is a bit weird. I would maintain two stories that would receive regular updates, but the third slot would be chosen through a vote. Once a month I would hold a vote that would determine up to four additional stories that could be updated and in what order.
Here's an example. On 1st, there's a vote on several story ideas. Story 1 receives the most votes, so it would be updated on the first Wednesday of the month. Story 2 received the second most, so it would be updated the next Wednesday and so on.
So the update schedule would look something like this: Story 1 - Story 2 - Story 3 one week. Next week it could be: Story 1 - Story 2- Story 4. Then the week after that it would be: Story 1 - Story 2- Story 5.
Additionally, stories can be voted for twice. So, provided that it receives the votes, a story could be updated with a second chapter that month. It would look like something like this: Story 1 - Story 2 - Story 1 - Story 3.
With this option, I would have a variety of projects in the works and they'll all be up to my usual quality.
One multi-week, one weekly, one bi-weekly: For this option, one of my stories would receive up to three chapters a week of around 2-3k words, another would stay the same at weekly 6-8k words, and one would receive bi-weekly 10-12k chapters.
The schedule would look something like this: Story 1 - Story 1 - Story 2 - Story 1 then the week after that would be: Story 1 - Story 1 - Story 2 - Story 3 - Story 1