Using which measure of central tendency, and inclusive or exclusive of WIPs and/or drawerfic?
(The average length of my drawerfic = more. But the sample size is too small for that to be significant.)
(I mean, I suspect the median is 5-10k, the mean is either 10-20k or more, and the mode is 1000, due to early participation in many 1000 word ficathons. Or it's 100, if I count drabbles. I'd have to check.)
(Note: avoidance via statistics was one of the reasons I started porting everything to Wordpress. Of course, then I got bored and fell into Supernatural, so I stopped.)
Drawerfic = crackaddled things written and then kept in a drawer, never to be shown in public. Or, if you're me, drawerfic = where all those bad ideas that won't shut up get shunted.
When I was working on the last long Buffyverse thing I finished (okay, for certain values of finished that equal not revised or posted), I kept another document in play called, umm. (checks) BADMINNOBISCUIT.rtf. A truly epic Birthdayverse story with some absurd pairings, an overload of angst, hatesex, and hurt/comfort, Sexy Principal Robin Wood, and Gunn and Wes winding up soccer moms with a minivan. It was basically my cliche outlet. Writing the main story was like pulling teeth. Writing the drawerfic was pretty much the opposite. I think for every 200 words I put into Sunrise, I put 2,000 in the drawerfic.
I answered 1000-5000 because that's the average length of what I've finished in the past year. But the average length of all the unfinished stories I have stored away is probably more like 10K-20K. I'm a flake and can never finish the longer stuff. D:
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Date: 2008-01-26 11:21 pm (UTC)(The average length of my drawerfic = more. But the sample size is too small for that to be significant.)
(I mean, I suspect the median is 5-10k, the mean is either 10-20k or more, and the mode is 1000, due to early participation in many 1000 word ficathons. Or it's 100, if I count drabbles. I'd have to check.)
(Note: avoidance via statistics was one of the reasons I started porting everything to Wordpress. Of course, then I got bored and fell into Supernatural, so I stopped.)
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Date: 2008-01-26 11:37 pm (UTC)When I was working on the last long Buffyverse thing I finished (okay, for certain values of finished that equal not revised or posted), I kept another document in play called, umm. (checks) BADMINNOBISCUIT.rtf. A truly epic Birthdayverse story with some absurd pairings, an overload of angst, hatesex, and hurt/comfort, Sexy Principal Robin Wood, and Gunn and Wes winding up soccer moms with a minivan. It was basically my cliche outlet. Writing the main story was like pulling teeth. Writing the drawerfic was pretty much the opposite. I think for every 200 words I put into Sunrise, I put 2,000 in the drawerfic.
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