I originally planned to post this series on Twitter, but Twitter is mostly for politics, memes, and shitposting. My goal was to avoid politics for the most part—but if you’re on Twitter, you inevitably get exposed to it again.

Another thing I’ve realized is that Twitter doesn’t function like a blog. People only care about what you post right now. What you shared a week ago might as well not exist.

Writing weekly updates about my author project only makes sense if it’s in a diary format that people can follow from start to finish. That kind of continuity just doesn’t work on Twitter for me. It can only work on my own site, in a blog format.

So, I’ll be writing it here.

This might actually work best as a monthly report. I used to write those on Medium back in the day when I generally tried to build a following for all my projects—until they banned me on the platform. Incidentally, those posts brought the most traffic to my profile.

The new reports on this site will include all relevant numbers and results of my author project. I’ll be as transparent as possible. The idea is to create a real-time diary showing the potential growth of my platform: book downloads, sales, reach, impressions, traffic, and more.

For now, my weekly short story book project on Amazon will be the main focus, as it’s the one thing I can currently report growth with. As for sales—so far, I might’ve sold three books and gotten a few Kindle Unlimited reads. Not exactly headline material, but hopefully that’ll change. If it does, I’ll include specific numbers for that too. Same goes for growth on platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and others.

Over time, these reports will evolve. Let me know in the comments what specific details you’d like to see.