Question About Word/Page Count

[McKenna]

Can anyone tell me approximately how many words there are on a "page" at Literotica, (within a submitted story?)

I'd like an estimate of how many pages my story is going to be.

Thanks.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I believe it's about 4500 words.

---dr.M.

 

[McKenna]

Thanks dr. M.

So a story of about 30,000 words is going to be 6 or 7 "Lit pages." Oy. Time to edit.

 

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[McKenna]

McK,

I took one of my stories and copied the entire first lit page and pasted it into WORD. the results from clicking Tools/Word count:

7 pages
3545 words
350 lines

Hope it helps.

Lime

I'm a little confused Lime... your story was 7 Word pages, containing 3545 words?

 

[nushu2]

What Lime said was that one Lit page is 3545 words, which became 7 pages in Word.

There is no exact number of words in a Lit page. Depends on the number of paragraphs and dialogue. 4000 is a nice round number and close enough.

 

[Weird Harold]

Can anyone tell me approximately how many words there are on a "page" at Literotica, (within a submitted story?)

I'd like an estimate of how many pages my story is going to be.

Thanks.

When Lit was in the process of converting to it's current script driven format, I did a lot of testing for them. As part of that testing, I did a random check of word counts and page sizes.

A Lit page is determined by the Character count with a few qualifiers -- it's roughly 14KB rounded to the nearest paragraph break -- but it works out to an averge word count of 3,767 words/lit page +/- about 500 words.

I use 3,750 when checking for probable Lit page breaks.

MS Word's page count is meaningless except as a number you derive for YOUR particular preference settings -- Font, Font Size, Margins, Indents, White space, etc, all change the Word page count without Changing the Lit page count at all.

So a story of about 30,000 words is going to be 6 or 7 "Lit pages." Oy. Time to edit.

I make it 8 lit pages, but I don't see any reason to edit simply because it's going to be several Lit pages when posted.

Edit according to the needs of the story you're trying to tell and don't worry about how Lit will set thepage breaks.

If the story is good, eight lit pages isn't long enough. If the story is bad, one Lit page is too long.

 

[cantdog]

You are cool ass, dude. Thanks.

 

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