Is it not Nifty?

[elfs]

I went to Nifty today. I have to be grateful to Nifty: they were one of the first sites to archive all of my gay stuff and provide me with one of the primary outlets on the Intarweb way back when I was just a little site with fifty stories or so.

There's a section labeled "Prolific Authors" in their catalog. It's for people who've written twenty or more stories, at least that's what I gather from the screen. I found my name in the index, but the anchors didn't work right so I scrolled down to it.

I damn near missed it as it flew past. Each author was in bold, followed by line after line of titles. Mine was one line: Too many to list here.

Sigh.

But, hey, I did 2,800 words today, bringing me up to a three-day total of: weird, 9800 words exactly.

Okay, semi-serious question. Part of the content of the documents is a header I write by hand. I use a pure text editor: word processors just give you the power to fiddle endlessly. My header looks a little like a mail or usenet header, and it has keys like "Universe," "Arc," "Synopsis," and so on. I do write them by hand, but they're meta-data and not actually part of the story. Do they still add to the word count? Without them, the word count is 9,566.

Comments

word counts

[rkda.livejournal.com]

As for the word count question, here is my take. If the reader can see it, then it counts. If I have to look at the page source to find it, then it does not count. The extra formatting you have to put in to make block quotes work does not count either. Only the stuff I get to see on the rendered page. On the other hand, I would count the Title, pendor date, next and previous links, and the glif you use to seperate sections in some of the stories. The reader gets to "read" them, so they all count.

My two cents worth

BTW: your work continues to amaze (and occasionally inspire) me, thank you for sharing you world and your imagination with the rest of us =)

RKDA