swissmarg | H/G Seasons Fest Winter 2010/2011 Statistics

Fest community:

hg_seasonsfest
Master List: Here
Fest type: Anonymous exchange
Premise: Harry/Ginny, winter
Ratings restrictions: All ratings allowed
Length restrictions: 1,000 words minimum, no maximum
Creation period: 3 months

There were 28 gifts created for this fest by 26 participants.

cibjasfad and

katwoman_68 wrote 2 fics each.

Fics: 23
Art: 5

Art to fic ratio: 22%

By rating:

FICS
G - 3
PG - 9
PG-13* - 6
R - 4
Hard R/NC-17 - 1

*Note one fic was rated T(PG). I counted that as PG-13 because the T (Teen) rating corresponds to PG-13 in the MPAA rating system. K+ would be PG.

ART
G - 2
PG - 3

By word count:
The shortest fic was 1,700 words. The longest fic was 14,400 words.

1-2K - 3
2-3K - 8
3-4K - 3
4-5K - 3
5-6K - 3
6-7K - 1
7-8K - 1
8K+ - 1

Total words written: 95,946 words
Mean (average fic length): 4,172 words
Median (half the fics longer, half the fics shorter): 2,900 words
Mode (most frequent fic length): 2-3K

Some thoughts: There was a solid showing in the art department, with 1/5 of the gifts being art.

All of the art was rated G/PG. The fics also tended more toward low ratings, with 78% of the fics rated PG-13 or less. Still, there was a full range of ratings, including one NC-17 fic. The low ratings suggest to me that this fest was geared more toward fluff and family life, rather than the physical relationship between adults.

The word counts were on the low side, given the long creation period. There was only one mid-length fic produced, and none of Big Bang length, although some of the art work looked like it took several hours or even days to make. It's always hard for me to tell with art, not being an artist myself. Just about half of the fics were less than 3,000 words, and a small interesting tidbit is that all three of the 1-2K length fics were almost exactly the same length (1700, 1710, and 1713 words).

One reason for the short overall fic lengths may be an overlap of the creation period with several other large fests. Also, since Harry/Ginny is a canon couple, and there is no need to develop their relationship or justify them being together, there may be a tendency to portray single scenes of family life or fluff, rather than complicated 'how they got together' fics.