| More than Epic |
[Aug. 27th, 2009|03:13 pm] |
At current count, there are approximately 210 individual threads listed in the thread index (with a handful more not yet listed.) If we use a conservative assumption of 10,000 words per thread, that is over two million one hundred thousand words.
That's twenty-one long novels. Or thirty-eight short ones.*
In the twenty-one months since Fallen Leaves started, we have produced an average of a novel a month, and, excluding backstory threads, covered five months of in-game time.
Are you astounded yet? I sure am. Twenty-one novels in twenty-one months. Congratulations, writers. We rock!
*Many genres seem to have succumbed to supersizing. A mass-market western, mystery or SF novel used to run to 60,000-70,000 words. Now they're more likely to hit 90,000 words. Fantasy novels seem to be about 125,000 words—per volume, with some series going on and on. Mainstream fiction can be anywhere from 55,000 words (about the length of many mass-market romances) to ten times that. --from Writing Fiction |
|
|