Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944 Chamber of Secrets: 85,141 Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253 Goblet of Fire: 190,637 Order of the Phoenix: 257,045 Half-Blood Prince: 168,923 Deathly Hallows: 198,227
Word count in the LOTR Series:
The Hobbit:95,022 Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227 Two Towers: 143,436 Return 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.
I decided to do some math to satisfy my curiosity, a.k.a. I Wonder How Many Novels I’ve Written Across My Fandom Career. My current cumulative word-count, according to the AO3 Statistics function, is 2,571,675.
Depending on who you ask and what websites you consult, the average novel is anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 words. At the upper average, there are also some 200,000-word monsters out there in the deep (see 3 posts up).
If I use 200,000 words as my metric, I’ve written about 13 novels.
If I use 100,000 words as my metric, I’ve written about 26 novels.
If I use 50,000 words as my metric, I’ve written about 52 novels.
Taking into account my non-fandom published writing, which is a different species of book altogether (i.e. the primary kind of writing I’m known for outside of fandom isn’t prose), I’m actually not sure how much that adds to the count.
TL;DR—keep writing, folks! It adds up, and clocking words means honing craft.
“shakespeare’s use of tragedy is different from the classical; what makes him care about his tragic characters is not that they are good, as greek protagonists fundamentally are, but that they might have been.”
— john vyvyan, the shakespearean ethic (via oephelia)
there are definitely people on Youtube & Twitter who were alive during the Byzantine Empire
evidence: guy who uploaded medieval songs to youtube and his channel information says “Orthodox and Catholic are welcome on my channel. Protestants are fake Christians”
