Nerding out on Word Count per Lit Page - 3500

[NotWise]

I've also seen it where pages will break with a scene if there's a convenient scene break within +/- 500 words

Doesn't that imply that Laurel read the text and manually placed the break?

 

[AwkwardMD]

Doesn't that imply that Laurel read the text and manually placed the break?

Or at least skimmed it.

 

[ChloeTzang]

rotflmao. This strikes me as the quintessential Literotica geek thread. LOL. I mean, word counts - I love these posts! The analysis! The theorizing! The speculation!

This is all something I have never thought about. I think someone told me it was around 3500 words per Lit page way back in 2015 and I just accepted that and have worked on that for approximate story lengths ever since. I have concluded I am nowhere near geeky enough! LOL.

 

[NotWise]

rotflmao. This strikes me as the quintessential Literotica geek thread. LOL. I mean, word counts - I love these posts! The analysis! The theorizing! The speculation!

This is all something I have never thought about. I think someone told me it was around 3500 words per Lit page way back in 2015 and I just accepted that and have worked on that for approximate story lengths ever since. I have concluded I am nowhere near geeky enough! LOL.

At least the thread title is a fair warning.

 

[ChloeTzang]

At least the thread title is a fair warning.

LOL. It is....it made me laugh, it's so true. After reading thru all the posts I feel as if I am letting the side down. I am just not nerdy enough for this. LOL But I love it!!!!

I'm sure there's a plot bunny here for the geek day event.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I've also seen it where pages will break with a scene if there's a convenient scene break within +/- 500 words

I just benefitted from this so I'm apt to think this is true. But it's hard for me to believe this is being done on a conscious basis for 150 new stories a day or whatever that number is. Or maybe it is plausible--just tedious!

I just tested one of my stories against this 20,000k character limit per page. On 2 of the 3 full pages, the total characters by page (including spaces) did NOT exceed 20,000k (but did exceed 19,000). However, on those 2 pages, they could've accommodated an additional paragraph respectively and still have been below 20k. I used the 'Characters (with spaces)' counter on Microsoft Word.