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DS Flashfiction Stats III (Hourglass)
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ds_flashfiction and databasing stats about the stories that appeared therein -- see the previous entry if you want to know the stats for the first challenge, this will cover stats for the second challenge ("Hourglass" comprising stories between 4/30 and 5/6).
Same rules for this one -- my subjective judgement on pairing, POV, rating, using the Word word count feature if the author didn't supply a page count.
So on with the stats for Challenge #3, Hourglass....
Length
Note: there were two stories of exactly 1000 words, and six stories over 1K.
Rating
Note the cluster around R ratings (perhaps since the stories, set over a period of at least five years, tended more toward the long-term romance end of the spectrum?).
Point of View
3rd person is the clear winner in this challenge, with only 8 stories told from first person.
Pairing by Frequency
I'm thinking of holding back on the accumulated stats until I've got Challenge IV completely entered -- Challenge V is actually finished. It takes a couple hours to do each challenge, because I've got to read through each one -- yeah, tough work that. I've got to say... there is a lot of really good reading there. Really, the overall quality of these stories, both from a quantitative level of grammar and spelling, plus the more qualitative "fun reading" factor, is astounding.
ds_flashfiction and databasing stats about the stories that appeared therein -- see the previous entry if you want to know the stats for the first challenge, this will cover stats for the second challenge ("Hourglass" comprising stories between 4/30 and 5/6).Same rules for this one -- my subjective judgement on pairing, POV, rating, using the Word word count feature if the author didn't supply a page count.
So on with the stats for Challenge #3, Hourglass....
Length
Average Length: 614.28 Shortest Story (5 way tie): 100 words -- cmshaw, Halimede, lmondegreen, prudentia, stellamaris Longest Story: 1520 words -- "Sparks" by Beth H. Total wordage for 32 stories: 19657 words |
Note: there were two stories of exactly 1000 words, and six stories over 1K.
Rating
NC-17: 7 R: 13 PG: 7 G: 2 |
Note the cluster around R ratings (perhaps since the stories, set over a period of at least five years, tended more toward the long-term romance end of the spectrum?).
Point of View
3rd-Fraser 3rd-Kowalski 1st-Thatcher 1st-Victoria 3rd-Francesca 3rd-Omniscient 3rd-Turnbull 3rd-Vecchio 3rd-Welsh | 17 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 |
3rd person is the clear winner in this challenge, with only 8 stories told from first person.
Pairing by Frequency
F/K - (21) None - (6) K/Stella - (4) K/V - (4) F/Frannie - (2) K/Other - (2) |
38 overall pairings in the stories, yes, because some had more than one referenced, particularly the back story of Stella and RayK. To no one's surprise, Fraser/Kowalski is still the runaway favorite. |
I'm thinking of holding back on the accumulated stats until I've got Challenge IV completely entered -- Challenge V is actually finished. It takes a couple hours to do each challenge, because I've got to read through each one -- yeah, tough work that. I've got to say... there is a lot of really good reading there. Really, the overall quality of these stories, both from a quantitative level of grammar and spelling, plus the more qualitative "fun reading" factor, is astounding.
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