Dramione Advent stats
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dramione_advent completed posting yesterday and already has a master list ready, meaning I can escape from watching DVDs and getting toys working for an hour or so.
Fest community:dramione_advent
Fest type: Assigned prompts, by invitation only for 24 slots
Premise: Draco/Hermione, seasonal
Rating restrictions: R or under
Length restrictions: 500-5000 words
Creation period: Six weeks
There were 20 fics and 5 artworks created for the fest.
Art to fic ratio: 25%
By rating:
FICS
G - 1
PG - 7
PG-13 - 9
R - 3
ART
G - 5
By word count:
The shortest fic was 945 words long. The longest fic was 8,633 words long.
<1K - ii
1-2K - iii
2-3K - ii
3-4K - i
4-5K - iiiii i
5-6K - iii
6-7K - i
7-8K - 0
8-9K - ii
Total words written: 82,767 words
Mean (average fic length): 4,138 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 4,500 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 4-5K
Some thoughts: This is the first invitational fest I've done stats for, so it could be that the fact of it not being open to the general public might skew the results in one way or another.
The ratings were generally low, with all of the artwork rated G, and 85% of the fics rated PG-13 or lower. I'm not sure why that should be, unless the authors and artists who were invited to participate are ones who usually create low-rated fanworks anyway. Draco/Hermione certainly has their share of smut written in other places. It could also be that the fact that the community doesn't allow NC-17 material caused authors and artists to think that fluff would be more appreciated than smut.
The word count restriction was not enforced on the upper end, as fully 30% of the fics went over the 5,000 word maximum given in the rules. It also seems that several other authors might have liked to write more, given that the largest number of fics were just under the 5,000 word mark. I think that if there had been no word count restriction, even though there were only 6 weeks to write in, we might have seen a few pieces over 10,000 words. In that way, the word count restriction did serve its purpose by keeping fics down to one-shots that can be read in a comfortable sitting.
dramione_advent completed posting yesterday and already has a master list ready, meaning I can escape from watching DVDs and getting toys working for an hour or so.Fest community:
dramione_advent Fest type: Assigned prompts, by invitation only for 24 slots
Premise: Draco/Hermione, seasonal
Rating restrictions: R or under
Length restrictions: 500-5000 words
Creation period: Six weeks
There were 20 fics and 5 artworks created for the fest.
Art to fic ratio: 25%
By rating:
FICS
G - 1
PG - 7
PG-13 - 9
R - 3
ART
G - 5
By word count:
The shortest fic was 945 words long. The longest fic was 8,633 words long.
<1K - ii
1-2K - iii
2-3K - ii
3-4K - i
4-5K - iiiii i
5-6K - iii
6-7K - i
7-8K - 0
8-9K - ii
Total words written: 82,767 words
Mean (average fic length): 4,138 words
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): 4,500 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 4-5K
Some thoughts: This is the first invitational fest I've done stats for, so it could be that the fact of it not being open to the general public might skew the results in one way or another.
The ratings were generally low, with all of the artwork rated G, and 85% of the fics rated PG-13 or lower. I'm not sure why that should be, unless the authors and artists who were invited to participate are ones who usually create low-rated fanworks anyway. Draco/Hermione certainly has their share of smut written in other places. It could also be that the fact that the community doesn't allow NC-17 material caused authors and artists to think that fluff would be more appreciated than smut.
The word count restriction was not enforced on the upper end, as fully 30% of the fics went over the 5,000 word maximum given in the rules. It also seems that several other authors might have liked to write more, given that the largest number of fics were just under the 5,000 word mark. I think that if there had been no word count restriction, even though there were only 6 weeks to write in, we might have seen a few pieces over 10,000 words. In that way, the word count restriction did serve its purpose by keeping fics down to one-shots that can be read in a comfortable sitting.
