Originally posted by: LizzieBennet
We're trying to figure out a way to have a different parameter to log so we can include online fiction too. Any suggestions?
Like I mentioned, we can choose to track word counts instead of page counts. That's the only thing I can think of. I read on Ao3 where all the fics have word counts mentioned. I think ff.net probably has them too, although I'm not sure. Been ages since I visited there or Wattpad. But even if the wc isn't mentioned directly, I don't think it's that difficult to track.
Tracking pages for fics really isn't possible. Oneshots can be any possible word count... 3k, 8k, 15k, 28.5k... anything the author chooses. Some fics will be chaptered with 1-2k words (again it varies vastly) in each chapter. Rn I'm reading a fic where each chapter has like 6-8k words (the latest is ch 9 which has 10k+ words) and the total word count so far in that fic is around 70k — with one last chapter yet to be published.
Maybe you guys can keep a standard conversion rate, like you're planning to do for the audiobooks (hrs/mins -> pages). Here we can have a standard like 300 words = 1 page, and we can convert the wc into page count and then record it. Idk, that's all I can think of 😅
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