I’ve been moderating over at The Writer’s Chatroom for around seven years. Wow, have I been there that long? I recently composed a series of Surveys and posted the links to them on Facebook and Twitter. And The Survey Says..
Thank you all for participating. If you haven’t gone over to answer the questions, the surveys are still open. I’ll add the links at the end of this post.
First Survey Observations.
The first survey was short. It was a general getting to know you type of thing. I will attempt to tell you the results without resorting to statistics whenever possible.
And the Survey Says – Part 1 of 3
Q1 What do you write?
The choices were Fiction, Non-fiction, Blogs and of course I do not Write.
About two thirds of people claimed to be fiction writers followed by non-fiction not even a close second. I was surprised to see that only one in four writers had a blog.
Q2 Have you Visited The Writer’s Chatroom?
An equal number of people indicated that they were regulars at the chatroom, they simply don’t do chats and they keep forgetting the time of our chats.
Just over a third of the writers indicated that they come to chat when they can but life gets in the way.
Q3 What is your gender?
Three quarters of the writers were female.
Q4 What is your age?
On this one I discovered very few writers aged 44 or below. It could be those writers don’t know they are writers, they might be raising the first wave of their family or heavily employed. They certainly don’t seem to participate in surveys if they are lurking out there.
The bulk of writers are between 45 and 65.
If we wanted to attract more young writers and more men we probably need to find out where they hang out online and get their attention there.
In a walnut shell —
The average respondent is a woman between 45 and 65 who writes fiction and non-fiction and either has a full plate on Sundays and Wednesdays or simply forgets we are here.
I want to thank everyone who participated in the survey. You all rock.
Survey 1
Survey 1
Survey 3