How Long is this Fic Really?: A Guide
Dec. 3rd, 2016 02:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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the-queen-of-thedas:
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professortennant:
Word count in the HP Series:
Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944 Chamber of Secrets: 85,141Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253 Goblet of Fire: 190,637Order of the Phoenix: 257,045Half-Blood Prince: 168,923Deathly Hallows: 198,227
Word count in the LOTR Series:
The Hobbit: 95,022Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227Two Towers: 143,436Return of the King: 134,462
This changed me
I’ve read/ am reading fic that are upwards to 150,000 - 200,000. You’re telling me that authors that write for fun are writing a full-length book for the fun of it? They have earned my respect 10 fold.
@bomberqueen17
Home Out In The Wind: 89,054
Can’t Go Home This Way: 60,158
Never Wrote a Letter: 70,304 (so far)
Home Out In The Wind short stories/extras, total: 26,937
The Lost Kings, total: 54,866
Found Cat, total: 37,391
Illumination: 2,806
So far this year, you wrote and posted approximately as much as the first three and a half books of the Harry Potter series. Which is at least four normal books, because Goblet of Fire is so long, and Prisoner of Azkaban is already above average.
JKR spent six years writing the first Harry Potter book, and then the others took between one and two years each, so, your output in one year = her output in about nine years.
Aw, this was a sweet bunch of math to do, and i appreciate that.
I just went through today and tallied the Home Out In The Wind thing. I’m figuring that the three main-plot stories ought to be a novel unto themselves, since they’re all one continuity. And if I include the approximately 18000 (yikes) words of the chapter I’m still editing, then those three stories wind up being about 238,000 words, if my math is at all right.
Which is a long novel, but shorter than OOTP, so you’d be able to hard-bind it in a single volume, right?
I also looked at my AO3 stats and realized that while I was sort of down on myself for 2016 being a scant year, I’m on track to a total in line with previous years in terms of wordcount, so.
Maybe I’ve been working on this one dang epic for the entire year, but if I can post that last chapter and wrap it up, I’ll have completed it, and that’ll mean something.
(There are still shorter stories I’m going to do, like, you know, the porn epilogue etc with the spiritually-uplifting threesomes, but I just mean, the one big three-parter will be Done, all within 2016.)
buttons-beads-lace:
the-queen-of-thedas:
orangelemonart:
professortennant:
Word count in the HP Series:
Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944 Chamber of Secrets: 85,141Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253 Goblet of Fire: 190,637Order of the Phoenix: 257,045Half-Blood Prince: 168,923Deathly Hallows: 198,227
Word count in the LOTR Series:
The Hobbit: 95,022Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227Two Towers: 143,436Return of the King: 134,462
This changed me
I’ve read/ am reading fic that are upwards to 150,000 - 200,000. You’re telling me that authors that write for fun are writing a full-length book for the fun of it? They have earned my respect 10 fold.
@bomberqueen17
Home Out In The Wind: 89,054
Can’t Go Home This Way: 60,158
Never Wrote a Letter: 70,304 (so far)
Home Out In The Wind short stories/extras, total: 26,937
The Lost Kings, total: 54,866
Found Cat, total: 37,391
Illumination: 2,806
So far this year, you wrote and posted approximately as much as the first three and a half books of the Harry Potter series. Which is at least four normal books, because Goblet of Fire is so long, and Prisoner of Azkaban is already above average.
JKR spent six years writing the first Harry Potter book, and then the others took between one and two years each, so, your output in one year = her output in about nine years.
Aw, this was a sweet bunch of math to do, and i appreciate that.
I just went through today and tallied the Home Out In The Wind thing. I’m figuring that the three main-plot stories ought to be a novel unto themselves, since they’re all one continuity. And if I include the approximately 18000 (yikes) words of the chapter I’m still editing, then those three stories wind up being about 238,000 words, if my math is at all right.
Which is a long novel, but shorter than OOTP, so you’d be able to hard-bind it in a single volume, right?
I also looked at my AO3 stats and realized that while I was sort of down on myself for 2016 being a scant year, I’m on track to a total in line with previous years in terms of wordcount, so.
Maybe I’ve been working on this one dang epic for the entire year, but if I can post that last chapter and wrap it up, I’ll have completed it, and that’ll mean something.
(There are still shorter stories I’m going to do, like, you know, the porn epilogue etc with the spiritually-uplifting threesomes, but I just mean, the one big three-parter will be Done, all within 2016.)
