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The Twassel Factor

akarge ๐Ÿšซ

Just an observation.

I play various wargames. There is a concept called "The Fuzzy Factor".
Basically it stated that, even though a British soldier (Victorian era) had the firepower of 10 Fuzzies (African tribesmen. Definitely not a PC term, but it is the historical one.) this did NOT mean that he was equivalent to ten tribesmen, since it only took one hit to take him out.

I remembered that today, because one page (10 items) of random stories included THREE by Mat Twassel. So I calculated it out. He has 30.92% of the titles on this site. This is not to say 31% of content, since his stuff is shorter. Still, 31% of all titles.

Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

I remembered that today, because one page (10 items) of random stories included THREE by Mat Twassel. So I calculated it out. He has 30.92% of the titles on this site.

Your math is way off. Twassel has 1859 stories, but the total number of stories on SOL is 57,449. That makes Twassel's stories just 3.2% of the total story count.

awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

He has 30.92% of the titles on this site.

Or 3.25%, if you use traditional maths.

AJ

akarge ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

Yeah, I must have lost a digit in there someplace. Also I seem to have swapped my numerator and my denominator.

Sigh.

Still, he has an impressive percentage of the total titles.

Replies:   awnlee jawking
awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

Still, he has an impressive percentage of the total titles.

It's certainly a large number but I can't help feeling it's counterproductive. Such a large oeuvre is not readily accessible by readers who want to sample the stories.

AJ

sunseeker ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

wow that's a lot of stories! And I haven't read even 1 of them lol.

Replies:   Dominions Son
Dominions Son ๐Ÿšซ

@sunseeker

A quick look through the author list,there are half a dozen authors with more than 400 stories. Just Plain Bob would be second after Twassel with 794 stories. And Just Plain Bob's stories are longer. While he does have some short stories (the shortest is under 1K words) his longest is over 100K words.

Mat Twassel ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

Fewer than 1% of the stories I've posted to SoL are larger than 10K, but there are more than a hundred of these. Most of the longer ones were written before I started illustrating my stories, but some of the longer ones are illustrated. A good example of a long, illustrated story is "Painting Lessons." Almost all the shorter stories are illustrated. I make use of DAZ Studio to do the pictures, often supplemented by my own photographs and usually refined with various digital art tools.

If you've not read any of my shorter stories, they vary in tone from light to dark, with a large majority on the light side. If you care about scores, right now the top-rated is "A Room with a View," and the lowest rated is "Despair at Dawn." Almost all the low-rated stories are dark. I suspect this illuminates the SoL readers' strong preference for stories with a happy ending.

"Emma Aroused" is a very short story with a rating in the middle of "my range" but it is atypical in that it could be misconstrued as a "second person point of view" story.

Incidentally, my goal with the illustrations is to provide story information beyond a portrait of the characters. The ideal illustration delivers information important to the story and not necessarily apparent in the text. I know I don't always succeed in that. I'm remembering the illustrations in the storybooks of my young childhood when I could delight in the pictures while my parents read the words.

awnlee jawking ๐Ÿšซ

@akarge

I've been blocked by @sunseeker so I can't reply to the relevant post.

I'd just like to declare that I have a dog in this fight because not only have I read a few of Mat's stories, I've actually contributed about half a dozen sentences to his Bananagrams. They remind me of writing exercises we used to do when the Writers' Group I belonged to was still functioning.

AJ

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