Winter Hallows Advent 2010 stats

[swissmarg]

I know there are other fests that posted their master lists earlier that I haven't done yet, but this one was soooo super easy because the lovely mods put ratings and word counts into the master list! Also, there was only one pairing and the number of submissions was quite manageable. I'm talking about the metamorfic_moon Winter Hallows Advent 2010, of course, the master list for which can be found here. And my statistics are below.

Fest community: metamorfic_moon 
Fest type: Assigned prompt
Premise: Tonks/Lupin, Christmas
Ratings restrictions: For art: Any up to R. For fic: All ratings accepted, but NC-17 only at the mods' discretion
Length restrictions: None
Creation period: Up to one month and 10 days.

There were 27 submissions created for this fest: 21 fics and 6 artworks. There were 25 participants, with arctic_comet and shimotsuki contributing two fics each.

Ratio of art to fic: 29%

By rating:

ART
G - 6

FIC
G - 8
PG - 7
PG-13 - 6

By word count:
The shortest fic was 430 words long. The longest fic was 7,500 words long.

<1000 - iiiii i
1-2K - iiiii i
2-3K - iiii
3-4K - ii
4-5K - i
5-6K - 0
6-7K - i
7-8K - i

Total: 47,367 words
Mean (average fic length): 2,255
Median (half the fics shorter, half the fics longer): ca. 1,750
Mode (most frequent fic length): <1K, 1-2K

Some thoughts: The shape of these statistics is very similar to the last fest hosted on this community, namely the 2010 Summer Hallows Jumble (link to my statistics). Aside from the nearly identical numbers of fics and art, once again, the ratings were uniformly low, with nothing above a PG-13, even though it would have been allowed. One factor may have been the community rule that says NC-17 fics are only allowed at the mods' discretion. This could make people veer to the side of caution and keep their fics low rated in order to avoid having a hassle with getting permission to post.

The word counts were also relatively short, with the lion's share of the fics in the lowest two length categories. Over half the fics (57%) were less than 2,000 words long. This is probably due in part to the short creation period. The first fic and art were posted just 8 days after the prompts were sent out -- although that particular fic was one of the longer ones, at just over 3,000 words. Still, there simply wasn't time to complete a big bang length fic in the given time frame.

Another factor may have been the timing of the fest, though. Only 10 of the 27 submissions were posted by December 25th, and 13 of the submissions were posted in the last 2 days of the fest, on January 9 and 10. People may have been too busy with their real lives in the holiday period to devote much time to fan fiction. Additionally, there were several other exchanges and fests running at the same time, which may have spread some participants thin.