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875,000 words
Aug. 12th, 2012 08:40 pmNo, unfortunately not the amount of writing I got done while on vacation last week. Close, though. It's the number of words I read in those 6 days, all of them in Sherlock Holmes fan fics. That's an average of over 145,000 words a day. I don't know how many hours a day I spent reading; more than three, certainly. One reason I don't know is that when I read once I'm in bed, I don't look at my watch so that I don't stress myself with how late I'm staying up.
The total represents 33 fics, although 4 of them were so bad or simply not to my taste that I didn't finish them (I included only partial word counts for those 4 in the total). Most of the fics were based on the BBC verse, although a good portion were based on the original books, and a good portion of those in turn were by the wonderful author, Kate Forsythe. All of the fics were Sherlock/John (or Holmes/Watson). I am still not sated. Although I admit I am at the point where I will skim when authors rehash any of the BBC episodes; most often, they do that with ASiP and Reichenbach. I also skim treatments of The Empty House, interestingly, which I count as part of the BBC canon even though we haven't seen yet how it is adapted for Sherlock. I can't recall seeing any fan fic authors do anything very interesting or original with Empty House. Hopefully Gatiss and Moffat will be able to wow me.
The total represents 33 fics, although 4 of them were so bad or simply not to my taste that I didn't finish them (I included only partial word counts for those 4 in the total). Most of the fics were based on the BBC verse, although a good portion were based on the original books, and a good portion of those in turn were by the wonderful author, Kate Forsythe. All of the fics were Sherlock/John (or Holmes/Watson). I am still not sated. Although I admit I am at the point where I will skim when authors rehash any of the BBC episodes; most often, they do that with ASiP and Reichenbach. I also skim treatments of The Empty House, interestingly, which I count as part of the BBC canon even though we haven't seen yet how it is adapted for Sherlock. I can't recall seeing any fan fic authors do anything very interesting or original with Empty House. Hopefully Gatiss and Moffat will be able to wow me.
