ooh, a meme!

[rabidsamfan]

I haven't been on LJ much lately, which is a shame, but my brain has been attacked by pollen, and everything is rattling around in there. 

Still, I came on today and there's a meme running around, which requires nothing of me but a cursory expertise with Excel. 

So here it is.

Using just the stats from FF.N (Because I am too gogglebrained at the moment to hunt out the hits etc. elsewhere.)

ETA: the links below won't work, so go to http://www.fanfiction.net/~rabidsamfan to find all the stories.

Top ten by hits:

Call for the Doctor	327,898
100 Words to Baker Street	37,490
Brothers in Bond	32,074
Drabbles of Deduction	29,581
Emotional Level	18,828
Glimpses	16,189
Sink the FRIESLAND	12,410
Decidedly So	8,630
A Decided Genius	8,580
Consequences	6,109

But that's not really fair, since "Call for the Doctor" has 222 (very short) chapters.

Top ten by hits/chapter:

Triage	3284
Patching Things Up	2941
Retreat	2294
Brothers in Bond	2004.625
Loyaulte Me Lie	1896
Quarantine	1834
Call for the Doctor	1477.018
The Detective Who Cried Wolf	1357
Drabbles of Deduction	1344.591
A Decided Genius	1225.714

Okay, that's a bit fairer.  But some of those stories are a lot longer than others.  How about hits/word?

Brothers in Bond	18.90041
Call for the Doctor	13.7836
Drabbles of Deduction	10.27118
Emotional Level	8.789916
100 Words to Baker Street	7.120608
Coda: Granada's Mazarin Stone	7.101266
Sink the FRIESLAND	5.125981
Patching Things Up	2.548527
Scandalous Thinking	2.415094
Consequences	1.939365

Hm.. Still doesn't take into account how long some of those stories have been floating around the 'net.  How about hits/review?  I mean, if people realy like the story, they say something, don't they?   In this case, the lower the number, the better.

Nest	8
Speed the Plow	20.83333
Cauld, Cauld	35.33333
And Nothing Can We Call Our Own	36.9375
The Ringbearer and the Rose	40.76923
Between Now and Forever	41.71429
Unlucky	42.75
Fell Winter	44
10 x 100	51
Fourteen Days	53.55263

So "Nest" with only 16 hits in total, actually wins.  Cool.

Comments

[shirebound]

"Fourteen Days".... *happy sigh*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I was really happy to see it make at least one of the lists!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

SPEED THE PLOW.

*bwee*

I do so love this meme, even though I turned off my own hit counters.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I had so much fun writing that story -- even if I was blushing the whole time. And even more fun reading the comments the next morning!

[airynothing.livejournal.com]

I clicked on three of these and they each required an ff.net login. Is that because of the way they're linked, or do I really need one to read them?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap. I'll see if I can figure out how to fix the links. They're linked to the preview from the stats so I don't add to my stats by looking at my own stories and for once in my life I used the Rich text editor instead of the html editor because I was sleepy.

You can get all my stories by clicking on my "Other writings" link at the top of my LJ, though.

ETA: fixing the individual links would be a major exercise in time, so here's the general link:

http://www.fanfiction.net/~rabidsamfan

They're all there. Sorry! It never occurred to me to look at the links...

[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

Ah, I have to thank you. This meme sent me to 100 Words to Baker Street. Lovely!

...and the others. There went my evening!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had fun!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Ah - The Ringbearer and the Rose! Still love it to pieces, and I fondly remember how it felt to translate the glorious prosa of that scene when all of Hobbiton explodes in that miraculous growth of Spring.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You're one of the major reasons it ever got finished. I was rereading my old LotR fics recently and do you know you commented on almost every single one? (And the only one you missed you commented on the series a day or so later.)

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a fan, luv, and I will always be. *grins* I still tell everyone who wants to hear that you're a far better writer than I am.

Happy Birthday! All the best :)

[med_cat]

Re: Happy Birthday! All the best :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Thanks!

Re: Happy Birthday! All the best :)

[med_cat]

My pleasure ;)

Re: Happy Birthday! All the best :)

[(Anonymous)]

Thought I'd leave birthday wishes here since there's already a bit of a thread. I hope you had a great day and managed to get some relaxation/fun in. You got a weekend birthday this year, which are always among the best kind, I find. :-)

Hope you're well. All the best.

This is Timeless, btw.

Re: Happy Birthday! All the best :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Timeless!

So far it has been the birthday of Bad Decisions, but I think I can improve on it...