Someone asked me about the word counts for everything (shoutout to cloudychameleon!), and I got curious so I went through all the calculations based on the numbers that Watty gave me. So the numbers are probably slightly skewed because of my Authoress's notes and things like that, but I think that gives you a good perspective of everything. I'm also having a slight existential crisis, so I thought I would share. Lemme know if you can think of anything else that you're curious about and would like to see here in this bonus chapter!
Version 1 Word Count
3 (Results). 2657
5. 2998
6 (Draft). 656
Total: 6311
Version 2 Word Count
1. 2276
2. 4415
3. 5401
4. 8856
5. 3497
6. 7511
Total: 31,956
Version 3 (Oh boy, get ready)
1. 3804
2. 3804
3. 8718
4. 6696
5. 9700
6. 6433
7. 6344
8. 5146
9. 7117
10. 9150
11. 10,505
12. 7369
13. 23,660
14. 16,531
15. 16,752
16. 11,968
17. 7578
18. 15,092
19. 15,709
20. 24,279
21. 10,715
22. 10,158
23. 11,777
24. 33,201
25. 12,020
26. 7317
27 (Draft): 12,466
TOTAL: 314,009 (HOLY SHIT. EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO REEVALUATE WHAT I'VE DONE WITH MY LIFE.)
To put this into perspective, the Guinness World Record for Longest Novel goes to Marcel Proust for his book A la recherche du temps perdu/In Search of Lost Time which has 1,267,069 words/3,031 pages/9,609,000 characters. This silly unfinished fanfic was around a quarter of the length.
So here's applause to you if you ever read all of Version 3 of Sky Writers. That translates to around 751 pages based on the size of Mr. Proust's novel.
Version 4
Prologue. 579
1. 5008
2. 7269
3. 10,808
4. 7292
5. 9816
6. 7766
7. 8983
8. 10,731
9. 6093
10. 19,229
11 (Draft). 5095
Total: 98,672
Word Count by Version
Version 1: 6311
Version 2: 31,956
Version 3: 314,009
Version 4: 98,672
GRAND TOTAL: 450,948
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The Lost Stars: (The Discontinued Stories of Sky Writers in Perspective)
FanfictionFormerly a KH/FF Reader-Insert which is continued in a new book under the Name of Sky Writers. This book is discontinued because it contains the old versions of that same story, and it is meant more to be a record of my growth and improvement, as we...
