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cherryI was giving my site a bit of a face lift the other day -- just adding a few more sections and changing the banners, as it only had sections for Due South, X-Men, and Alias. Everything else was just shoved into Misc.
So, while I was doing this, I got to wondering about my story stats. I have been at this something like five years, after all. (Which, in and of itself, OMFG. I left newbie land behind a long time ago.)
It turns out I've written 59* stories in 20 fandoms. But that's not the meat of the matter. What's important is that
Firstly:
Story Distribution: Alias (4), Buffy (2), Dead Like Me (1), Doctor Who (3), Dogma (1), Due South (11), Firefly (4), Harry Potter (3), LotR (1), LXG (1), Matrix (1), Mysterious Ways (1), Nikita (1), Ocean's 11 (2), SG1 (1), SGA (3), Smallville (1), West Wing (5), X-Files (1), X-Men/Gen-X/Movieverse (16).
The more mathematically inclined amongst you may notice that this is more than 59. That's because of crossover incidences, which are listed in fandom total, but only added once to the overall total. There was originally a pie chart, but the low story to fandom ratio made it into a big rainbow ball.
Now that the preliminaries are out of the way: here's what you all knew. I write a lot of gen. I'm going to assume everyone here knows how to read a Venn diagram.
That's 57% in the gen circle, just FYI, including stories that happen to contain pairings that I still consider to be gen. I think there's probably an entire post in that idea, somewhere, on writing a character who happens to be in a relationship vs writing about the relationship.
More specifically, as a percentage of total stories written, we have:
The 'kiss' section includes such things as '"Uhuh," he said, and dropped a kiss to her lips on the way out the door.' It's not an actual example, but you get the idea. *G*
The trouble with both of these is that I honestly believe some of the shipiest things I've written are technically gen, and a number of the stories I've written with pairings are NOT ship-fic. Due South is a particular example of this.
My output as of late as been down, and an overall analysis shows that I only write about half of my stories just for myself.
If this analysis were to be run on stories written within the past year or two years only, I suspect that the 'Pure Inspiration' slice would go down by about twenty percent.
So, yeah, not really many surprises, but I did blink a bit at the story to fandom ratio, and the fact that 61% of my stories have no physical contact. I'm not going to promise they don't have emotional porn, though.
Aren't charts and diagrams fun? I had a bunch of other data collected, about things like friendship and OCs (both of which I use to a large degree), and pairings (if a story has one pairing, it probably has at least one more, and friendship, the other ship) but then I figured I was probably scaring everyone enough by this point.
(HI! We all knew I'm an engineering student, right? Right?)**
* That is kind of a depressingly small number of stories when considered over a five year time span, but in my own defense, one was thirteen chapters. Also, I was 15. (Yeah. I'm getting on towards being a random fandom dinosaur.)
** Hey, "I'm an engineering student" is an excuse that gets you forgiven for all sorts of personality quirks and social disorders. Might as well get my mileage out of it.
So, while I was doing this, I got to wondering about my story stats. I have been at this something like five years, after all. (Which, in and of itself, OMFG. I left newbie land behind a long time ago.)
It turns out I've written 59* stories in 20 fandoms. But that's not the meat of the matter. What's important is that
Firstly:
Story Distribution: Alias (4), Buffy (2), Dead Like Me (1), Doctor Who (3), Dogma (1), Due South (11), Firefly (4), Harry Potter (3), LotR (1), LXG (1), Matrix (1), Mysterious Ways (1), Nikita (1), Ocean's 11 (2), SG1 (1), SGA (3), Smallville (1), West Wing (5), X-Files (1), X-Men/Gen-X/Movieverse (16).
The more mathematically inclined amongst you may notice that this is more than 59. That's because of crossover incidences, which are listed in fandom total, but only added once to the overall total. There was originally a pie chart, but the low story to fandom ratio made it into a big rainbow ball.
Now that the preliminaries are out of the way: here's what you all knew. I write a lot of gen. I'm going to assume everyone here knows how to read a Venn diagram.
That's 57% in the gen circle, just FYI, including stories that happen to contain pairings that I still consider to be gen. I think there's probably an entire post in that idea, somewhere, on writing a character who happens to be in a relationship vs writing about the relationship.
More specifically, as a percentage of total stories written, we have:
The 'kiss' section includes such things as '"Uhuh," he said, and dropped a kiss to her lips on the way out the door.' It's not an actual example, but you get the idea. *G*
The trouble with both of these is that I honestly believe some of the shipiest things I've written are technically gen, and a number of the stories I've written with pairings are NOT ship-fic. Due South is a particular example of this.
My output as of late as been down, and an overall analysis shows that I only write about half of my stories just for myself.
If this analysis were to be run on stories written within the past year or two years only, I suspect that the 'Pure Inspiration' slice would go down by about twenty percent.
So, yeah, not really many surprises, but I did blink a bit at the story to fandom ratio, and the fact that 61% of my stories have no physical contact. I'm not going to promise they don't have emotional porn, though.
Aren't charts and diagrams fun? I had a bunch of other data collected, about things like friendship and OCs (both of which I use to a large degree), and pairings (if a story has one pairing, it probably has at least one more, and friendship, the other ship) but then I figured I was probably scaring everyone enough by this point.
(HI! We all knew I'm an engineering student, right? Right?)**
* That is kind of a depressingly small number of stories when considered over a five year time span, but in my own defense, one was thirteen chapters. Also, I was 15. (Yeah. I'm getting on towards being a random fandom dinosaur.)
** Hey, "I'm an engineering student" is an excuse that gets you forgiven for all sorts of personality quirks and social disorders. Might as well get my mileage out of it.
