Fic progress
13 November 2021 02:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeChapter 18 of Arctic Raoul typed up: 2500 words, one of the shortest (but it still seemed to take forever). I did abridge it slightly as I went through, because it is so obviously infodump/filler -- this is the middle of the 'drifting north' section, so it's the point at which I'm basically trying to explain how they managed to lose a month and end up in the wrong place instead of simply abandoning ship.
This wasn't originally intended to be a stand-alone chapter, as I recall, but at the time of writing was assumed to be a scene in a longer chapter. Only the following scene was running far too long, and I decided to turn the scene split into an actual chapter boundary and make a couple of chapters out of it. Chapter 7 (the first chapter of the Christine/Erik section) is actually over 5,000 words long, but it's the only one that is -- and that one is sufficiently weighty in its content to justify the length! I'm not sure this stuff really even justifies its existence, which is unfortunate as it was such very hard work to write :-(
One side-effect of the extremely sketchy viewing statistics provided by AO3 is that it has at least broken me of the habit of checking frequently to see which stories have been viewed (since you only get 'lifetime' figures over all chapters of a story, rather than a monthly per-chapter per-story breakdown).
However, most recently I uploaded Chapters 1 and 2 of "The Sons of Éléonore", since somebody actually requested that. Chapter 1 staggered up to 26 page views in the space of a couple of weeks. When I uploaded Chapter 2, the total went up to 51 (and I'm honestly not sure whether that implies that 13 people reread chapter 1 and then read chapter 2, or whether the fresh upload meant that a number of people read chapter 1 but decided it wasn't what they were looking for, and a few went on to read the new chapter -- which is the normal FFnet pattern -- or whether 25 people jumped straight to the latest update using the fandom page link. With AO3 you just can't tell.)
I also note that the number of bookmarks per work is different on the author's stats page from the number displayed on the actual work; I don't know if this is because, for example, 'private' bookmarks don't show up on the work, just as subscriptions don't show up, or if it's just a bug. The most notable example is Appraisal, which had a vastly higher hit and kudos rate than anything else (doubtless because the Harry Potter fandom is much busier than, for example, the "Frozen" fandom), and shows up on the author statistics as having five bookmarks attached. The actual story only shows one.
To be honest I'm not sure why anyone would feel the need to keep a recommendation of that fic private, since it's not exactly explicit or controversial in any way...!
This wasn't originally intended to be a stand-alone chapter, as I recall, but at the time of writing was assumed to be a scene in a longer chapter. Only the following scene was running far too long, and I decided to turn the scene split into an actual chapter boundary and make a couple of chapters out of it. Chapter 7 (the first chapter of the Christine/Erik section) is actually over 5,000 words long, but it's the only one that is -- and that one is sufficiently weighty in its content to justify the length! I'm not sure this stuff really even justifies its existence, which is unfortunate as it was such very hard work to write :-(
AO3 stats:
One side-effect of the extremely sketchy viewing statistics provided by AO3 is that it has at least broken me of the habit of checking frequently to see which stories have been viewed (since you only get 'lifetime' figures over all chapters of a story, rather than a monthly per-chapter per-story breakdown).
However, most recently I uploaded Chapters 1 and 2 of "The Sons of Éléonore", since somebody actually requested that. Chapter 1 staggered up to 26 page views in the space of a couple of weeks. When I uploaded Chapter 2, the total went up to 51 (and I'm honestly not sure whether that implies that 13 people reread chapter 1 and then read chapter 2, or whether the fresh upload meant that a number of people read chapter 1 but decided it wasn't what they were looking for, and a few went on to read the new chapter -- which is the normal FFnet pattern -- or whether 25 people jumped straight to the latest update using the fandom page link. With AO3 you just can't tell.)
I also note that the number of bookmarks per work is different on the author's stats page from the number displayed on the actual work; I don't know if this is because, for example, 'private' bookmarks don't show up on the work, just as subscriptions don't show up, or if it's just a bug. The most notable example is Appraisal, which had a vastly higher hit and kudos rate than anything else (doubtless because the Harry Potter fandom is much busier than, for example, the "Frozen" fandom), and shows up on the author statistics as having five bookmarks attached. The actual story only shows one.
To be honest I'm not sure why anyone would feel the need to keep a recommendation of that fic private, since it's not exactly explicit or controversial in any way...!