I've never been terribly curious about this, but I did pay attention to Grimm when I last edited the final chapter some time ago. I was a bit surprised, and unsure what to think of that.

The other thing I suppose people find odd about me is I don't like reviews. Strange as it seems, I just don't care. I'd rather people talk to each other about my work, than me. I all but discourage it, if I mention it at all.

That said, I do understand why Grimm, for all people liked it, never got a lot of reviews despite its size/ popularity. I finished it in less than a month. Most approximate 100k stories take significantly longer. More time to lead up/ more incentive to encourage an author etc. I suppose.

This table took forever to format correctly.

Code:

 Story     		Words     	Chaps     	Reviews     	Hits  	   	C2s	Favs     	Alerts     
 A Cup Of Sugar 	51,863 		9 		41 		6,793 		2 	28 		19
 A Mirror, Darkly 	19,006 		4 		9 		1,096 		2 	6 		8
 Clockwork 		3,193 		1 		1 		331 		0 	1 		0
 Dead Letters 		8,123 		1 		12 		791 		4 	17 		0
 Eden's Gambit 		26,393 		3 		28 		6,370 		17 	31 		85
 Fall of Innocence 	27,444 		3 		37 		13,443 		27 	121 		203
 Fate Accompli 		181,060 	22 		76 		23,051 		8 	50 		57
 Fenrir's Anthem 	23,491 		3 		5 		2,289 		2 	6 		13
 Firesign Theatre 	3,518 		1 		8 		682 		7 	8 		5
 Ganymede Rising 	17,098 		1 		22 		2,274 		13 	41 		64
 Grimm: A Fairy's Tale 	96,787 		10 		156 		62,294 		93 	353 		329
 H.o.E.: An Iron Will 	44,442 		4 		21 		5,729 		3 	16 		44
 I am Progress 		1,396 		1 		0 		151 		0 	1 		0
 Laws Of Attraction 	3,360 		1 		7 		680 		3 	16 		3
 One Life 		15,724 		3 		5 		2,178 		3 	3 		12
 Penance 		2,402 		1 		8 		4,173 		8 	28 		3
 STNY? 			39,514 		3 		25 		3,876 		5 	45 		8
 Secondhand Lions 	42,086 		2 		58 		11,480 		49 	120 		226
 Snakecharmer	 	48,599 		7 		147 		51,324 		76 	367 		585
 The Key to Summer 	149,478 	14 		330 		177,741 	159 	409 		604
 The Kindly Ones 	24,585 		2 		16 		3,886 		24 	32 		76
 Understand 		2,692 		1 		17 		3,047 		15 	24 		4
 Vermilion Ascendant 	44,665 		6 		33 		4,251 		2 	29 		27

User things, they boggle me somewhat.

Member since 08-07-07.
You are on the favorites list of 253 members.
You are on the author alert list of 597 members.
You have submitted a total of 34 signed reviews.
Total words archived : 876,919 words.
Average number of words per story : 38,127
Total hits to Profile Page : 57,516

Few notes on stories:

I'm inordinately pleased by Grimm. I think it's the work I enjoy most, thinking back on, despite nearly killing me and destroying my life.

Snakecharmer confuses me. I think someone mentioned an 'odd pairing' inversion when it comes to review/popularity. That said, I can't really see it being unpopular. She's female, in his year, mentioned, and not attached. Moving on.

Penance was and probably will be my favorite smut piece till I get around to building a story behind it. I like Clockwork, but it's perhaps too personal.

The Key to Summer. The work I'm least proud of. Cliche to the point I cringe thinking back on it. I was a wholly different person back then. Oddly, it's arguably my most popular and reviewed work. Says something about the fandom, I suppose.

Vermilion Ascendant. Different fandom. For all the misanthropy and hatred toward humanity I poured into this one, it actually sparked numerous fanart and a rather rabid following that regularly harasses me via email/ messengers. I've taken to writing and giving them scenes like a newsletter, rather than posting updates. I think they just like my depiction of erotic brutality.

Ganymede Rising. Latest fluff piece. Quite content with it. Alex is practically an insert of a personality facet. She's all my good, and none of my misanthropy.

A Cup Of Sugar. Different fandom, again. Took DC comic characters in their early teens, sent them to college, and had them lead relatively normal lives.

 

Harry Potter and the Magic Unleashed

Stats Breakdown by Story

Words = 62,422
Chaps = 15
Reviews = 233
Hits = 116,859

C2s = 138
Favs = 508
Alerts = 723


Just goes to show, the more you learn, the more you realize how badly you suck!

 

I noticed that Dagger and Rose hit 1k reviews, thus giving me more motivation to work on the sequel this evening.

If I leave off the A/N, Harry James Potter: Anagram has one review per 3.02 words. (For comparison, li.u 88's Naruto and the Rocks has one review per 0.17 words).

Sorted in descending order by hit count:

Code:

[B]Story     	 	Words   Chaps   Reviews Hits    C2s 	Favs 	Alerts[/B]
Dagger and Rose  	85,159  17  	1,001  	282,352 223  	869  	1292
Adventures in Child... 	9,102  	7  	105  	25,685  39  	75  	48
A Mother In Law's Love 	34,319  5  	87  	21,025  19  	74  	112
Scourgify: The... 	1,816  	5  	48  	11,650  9  	24  	17
Hallows and Pathos 	17,473  3  	62  	10,954  38  	88  	23
HJP: Anagram           	318  	1  	75  	9,778  	16  	47  	4
The Game Is Afoot 	18,959  1  	43  	8,809  	19  	77  	29
Ministerial Kneepads 	1,111  	1  	28  	8,642  	17  	40  	10
The Life of Brian 	4,195  	1  	42  	4,346  	19  	65  	10
Detention in Defense 	4,308  	1  	48  	3,566  	19  	44  	53
101 Uses of the... 	1,183  	1  	19  	3,118  	11  	40  	9
Lost Soul	        7,887  	1  	22  	2,620  	30  	77  	70
Moonless Night 	        5,720  	1  	8  	2,108  	4  	19  	2
India 	                3,279  	1  	23  	1,687  	8  	18  	4
World Domination... 	2,000  	1  	5  	469  	0  	7  	0
River Run 	        1,239  	1  	10  	366  	3  	1  	1

You are on the favorites list of 261 members.
You are on the author alert list of 543 members.
You have submitted a total of 198 signed reviews.
Total words archived : 198,068 words.
Average number of words per story : 12,379
Total hits to Profile Page : 70,527

 

Seeing this thread roused my curiosity as towards the attention that my sparingly updated story had managed to gain. I was actually pleasantly surprised, and after finding my story recommended in a few places on the 'net, I might have to pick it up again. Doubtful that it's up to DLP standards, but it's one of my first attempts at fiction in general, and I don't think it's completely terrible.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Chapters: 2
Words: 11,145
Reviews: 64
Hits: 12,473
C2s: 29
Favorites: 183
Alerts: 307

 

Lol, what are you doing?

 

What is that Andro?

 

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, by EtheleneGlycol.

 

Yep, that's wish fulfilment at its very best.

 

I'm not criticizing the wish-fulfillment aspect necessarily. Some of the best fanfics have been wish-fulfillment fics. Some people are like Amerision. When he wanted to vicariously sex up his female self, he wrote a well-respected story with an original plot, cunning characters, realistic depiction of obsession, and not a million and one cliches.

And some people are like EthelyneGlycol.

 

/lols like Hell

Oh snap.

 

Okay, it's been bugging me for the last 10min so I have to ask: is the title referencing the band "Pulp" by any chance? In their song "The Day After the Revolution" there's the line "The revolution was televised." It's not much of a stretch (though still unlikely).

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsO4u46wIlk

 

Fair enough. Didn't think it was, but had to ask.

/end derailment.

 

Why is this so familiar?!

...

Oh, I remember now. I had this crazy English teacher in High School who forced us to listen to this on a weekly basis.

Fuck you, EG, I almost had this purged from my brain.

 

I've now read this whole thread, and the more I read the more depressed I get. Ah well, I haven't been posting on FF.net all that long, but these are the stats for my only semi-developed fic at the moment.

Stats Breakdown by Story

Story: The Other Side of the Coin
Words: 52,090
Chaps: 13
Reviews: 19
Hits: 8,117
C2s: 4
Favs: 31
Alerts: 55


People just really don't seem interested in reviewing this fic. *Shrugs*

 

There's something masochistic about doing this, but at least it'll make Sooner90 feel better.

Story: Holly Evans and the Spiral Path
First posted: 11th March, 2009
Words: 328108
Chapters: 43
Reviews: 401
Hits: 104933
Hits on Chapter 1: 25018 (thus reducing the value of the previous number)
C2s: 34
Favs: 207
Alerts: 207


Story: Spiral Tangents
First posted: 19th May, 2009
Words: 79106
Chapters: 11
Reviews: 30
Hits: 22599
Hits on Chapter 1: 8071 (even worse as this is a non-chapter)
C2s: 8
Favs: 27
Alerts: 41


Story: We Lost
First posted: 29th September, 2009
Words: 3092
Chapters: 1
Reviews: 20
Hits: 1409
C2s: 4
Favs: 16
Alerts: 36


Author Favs: 55
Author Alerts: 103

 

Fucking lol at this.

 

stats Breakdown by Story
Story.....................................................Words....Chaps...Reviews...Hits.....C2s ...Favs....Alerts
Harry Potter and the Apocalypse.....................2,803......3.......5......1,160..........4......19.......29
Harry Potter and the Meaning of Life................28,430.....8......126.....46,939.......4......304.....400
Harry Potter and the Revolution.......................27,080.....9.....103.....57,692......38......311.....439
Harry Potter and the Root of all Evil..................61,948.....11.....264.....79,497.....80......534.....675
Harry Potter and the Unexpected Changes.........66,585.....16.....248.....233,534.....82.....636.....445

Is it a crime to loath all of your own stories? I hate 4 out of the 5 I've written