How many words ?

[Ezrollin]

Anyone know appox. how many words per Literotica page ?

 

[JKendallDane]

I believe you'll find 3,700 to 3,800 is pretty much a safe bet.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yup, its 3700+

I want to say 3750.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

What I do is put my story in Lit format, just DON'T push submit until you're ready. You can always see how long it's going to be. It will say "Not submitted" and you can keep opening it up and adding, etc.

Anyone know appox. how many words per Literotica page ?

 

[Handley_Page]

Anyone know appox. how many words per Literotica page ?

It's worth realising that a Word Proc will see about 500-600 words per page, so a Lit page is about 3 from the WP, unless you have it set to some strange paper size.

 

[Weird Harold]

Anyone know appox. how many words per Literotica page ?

according to the test I ran on 100 full Lit pages when they first went to the current format:

3,767 +/- ~400 words.

3,500 is a good approximation that is easier for mental arithmetic.

 

[Ezrollin]

My main reason for asking is because I want to start writing longer stories. Knowing how many words per page, would give me an idea of how many Lit. pages I have actually written. Thanks !

 

[oggbashan]

My main reason for asking is because I want to start writing longer stories. Knowing how many words per page, would give me an idea of how many Lit. pages I have actually written. Thanks !

When you preview the submission it will show how many Lit pages it comes to.

You could use submit, preview and NOT submit to check.

I have one earlier story that just continues for a few words beyond into a new Lit page. When that happened with a single short sentence on preview for a later story I edited on the submission box until the last Lit page was gone.

But I had to take out some line breaks and over 150 words to trigger the change.

 

[Carnevil9]

It depends on your writing style. If you have lots of dialogue or short paragraphs, there will be fewer words on a page. If you tend toward "walls of text," you will get more. Personally, I average about 3900.

 

[Weird Harold]

It depends on your writing style. If you have lots of dialogue or short paragraphs, there will be fewer words on a page. If you tend toward "walls of text," you will get more. Personally, I average about 3900.

Not really. The actual page breaks are calculated on a character count rather than a word count. paragraph breaks and other invisible characters don't add that many characters to the character count, and the "orphan control" functions obscure a lot of the extra characters that are invisible. You'd have to have a LOT of dialogue consisting of one or two words to see a significant drop in word count.

the difference between character count and word count is the main reason for the wide (+/- 400) word-count variance in the check I ran.

 

[Privates1stClass]

Through some personal research, I've found that a LIT page with mainly text paragraphs uses about 20,000 characters. If there's a large amount of short dialogue sentences, the number of characters per page drops to around 19,000.

So I make my estimates at around 19,500 characters per page. Thus far, my estimates have been around 95 percent accurate.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

My main reason for asking is because I want to start writing longer stories. Knowing how many words per page, would give me an idea of how many Lit. pages I have actually written. Thanks !

i gotta ask - why would that matter? is it just curiosity? i'm only asking because i find trying to control the length [no pun] inhibiting.