How many Words make a page

[gordo12]

For those of you who have been writing for a while I wonder how many words it takes to make one page when you're posting on Lit.

I've run a couple of them and it seems like around 3500 so a 25,000 word story would take 7-8 pages? Does that sound about right?

 

[sr71plt]

My pages over nearly 900 stories have remained close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

 

[gordo12]

Thanks for that.

G.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

My pages over nearly 900 stories have remained close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

Yeah, but you use a lot of small words.

 

[sr71plt]

But I make up for that with long sentences and paragraphs.

 

[Weird Harold]

For those of you who have been writing for a while I wonder how many words it takes to make one page when you're posting on Lit.

I've run a couple of them and it seems like around 3500 so a 25,000 word story would take 7-8 pages? Does that sound about right?

3,767 +/- ~400 words -- as averaged over 100 full Lit pages.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I believe the word count per page depends on the spacing and the paragraphing.

After having written more than 2,000 stories and poems under 13 names in 9 years, Literotica pages run from 3,600 to 3,800.

 

[Kantarii]

I don't ask questions like that. I ask how many words does it take to create a well written and thoughtout story before it's posted for the reader to enjoyKant

How many licks to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop? How many licks to make her cum? That's a better question to ask

 

[oggbashan]

I don't ask questions like that. I ask how many words does it take to create a well write and thoughtout story before it's posted for the reader to enjoyKant

I try to do that in fifty words.

 

[EJsSiha]

This is not a question for stories on the Android app, right? Otherwise I really need a phone with a bigger screen lol

 

[Zeb_Carter]

This is not a question for stories on the Android app, right? Otherwise I really need a phone with a bigger screen lol

They don't make a phone that big...yet.

 

[Hypoxia]

I mostly read LIT stories on Android devices: a 5-inch phone, and 7- and 8-inch tablets, sometimes in portrait aspect, sometimes landscape. I often read with the Android app but sometimes in a browser window if I want to vote or comment. Browser pages are indeed about 3750 words. App pages are all over the place depending on device and aspect. Does anyone here read on a watch?

 

[gordo12]

I don't ask questions like that. I ask how many words does it take to create a well written and thoughtout story before it's posted for the reader to enjoy������Kant

So often authors launch stories that end up being 1/2 a page or something like that. It pisses readers off.

IF I was to post a story I want to make sure there's a few pages there to start and broken at the appropriate place if there's more than one chapter.

I don't have that experience and thought I'd ask before jumping off a cliff

 

[gordo12]

I mostly read LIT stories on Android devices: a 5-inch phone, and 7- and 8-inch tablets, sometimes in portrait aspect, sometimes landscape. I often read with the Android app but sometimes in a browser window if I want to vote or comment. Browser pages are indeed about 3750 words. App pages are all over the place depending on device and aspect. Does anyone here read on a watch?

I'd be ok with a tablet but I can't imagine a smartphone for reading. I remember one of the authors stated he was WRITING with his phone. Incredible!

A watch? The imagination quakes!

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

I'm in the dark ages. I use a tower and a monitor in the living room.
Using WORD I click TOOLS then WORD COUNT.

When licking a Tootsie Pop or pussy I don't worry how many times it takes to get to the good part.

 

[Hypoxia]

I'm in the dark ages. I use a tower and a monitor in the living room.
Using WORD I click TOOLS then WORD COUNT.

I use the free Jarte editor on a 12.5-inch laptop (in my lap!); I need merely mouse-over an icon to get the stats. I only use antediluvian Word (2002) for spell-checks.

Yeah, a word count gives us a pretty good idea of how many browser pages a LIT piece consumes but is clueless re: app pages. Do I care if a 6-LIT-page occupies 140 (portrait) or 180 (landscape) pages on my 5-inch phone? Not really. (I'm too lazy to check the ratio on my varied tablets.)

The Android devices are pocket-portable, available whenever I want them, so I don't fret about being stuck in front of a monitor reading a long, long story. Think of these as the pocket-book editions.

 

[lovecraft68]

My pages over nearly 900 stories have remained close to 3,750 words per Lit. page.

After having written more than 2,000 stories and poems under 13 names in 9 years, Literotica pages run from 3,600 to 3,800.

Look, dueling narcissists

 

[gordo12]

When licking a Tootsie Pop or pussy I don't worry how many times it takes to get to the good part.

Just getting to the pussy is the good part. The rest is just gravy!

 

[sr71plt]

Look, dueling narcissists

And one backbiting jackass.

Just can't help yourself, can you?--especially funny in view of all your "here, read my stories on how sexy my wife's feet are and how I usta beat up my daughter's boyfriends--before they sent me to jail and anger management."

 

[LadyVer]

3,767 +/- ~400 words -- as averaged over 100 full Lit pages.

Weird Harold is the expert.

 

[sr71plt]

Weird Harold is the expert.

Works for me (especially since the number I gave and have experienced [for nearly 900 stories ] is close to centering on that).

 

[LadyVer]

Works for me (especially since the number I gave and have experienced [for nearly 900 stories ] is close to centering on that).

That may be true, but Weird Harold gives his advice so divinely.

 

[sr71plt]

That may be true, but Weird Harold gives his advice so divinely.

And certainly not giving an indication that it wasn't like that for him once or twice, but consistently for a lot of stories.

 

[LadyVer]

And certainly not giving an indication that it wasn't like that for him once or twice, but consistently for a lot of stories.

But he doesn't have the need to prove his point at the expense of others.

 

[sr71plt]

But he doesn't have the need to prove his point at the expense of others.

Neither did I. I was indicating that it has been a good average over a whole bunch of stories here (and I gave essentially the same number WH before he did). Sometimes people just go looking for a reason to be nasty to other people here. I trust that's not going to include you. (I might make the point that although WH gave guidance, he didn't cite any reason why it should be believed. I did--by indicating it was good to go over a large volume of stories on Lit. As an editor I would think you would appreciate giving citations. Maybe not? Maybe you just want to fight?)