(also posted on tumblr)

Okay, this may seem crazy, but I have done some analysis of my Star Trek stories, trying to determine which areas I write in too often and which seldom see a story. I have even gone so far as to plot out a time-series that shows how long each story took to complete, where the one-shots occured between the gaps, and their word counts, individually and culminatively. In short, I have gone crazy.

Some observations:
1. On average, a multi-chaptered story will be 25,500 words.
2. On average, a one-shot will be 2,200 words.
3. I will write three to six one-shots in between multi-chaptered stories (of length at least 25,000 words), which can total in word count from 15,000 to 25,000.
4. The average number of days between chapter posts is 6 days.
5. My longest WIP took nearly 3/4th of a year to write, averaging one chapter every two weeks, but my longest story to date took only three months and had an average posting time of 4 days.
6. I have written the same number of pairing stories as I have non-pairing stories. If it is a pairing story, it is 59% more likely to be K/S/M and 79% more likely to be AOS. If it is a non-pairing story, there is an equal chance it could be either AOS or TOS but 64% chance that it will be a one-shot.
7. I don’t write Kirk/McCoy by itself in the TOS ‘verse. I guess it has to be McSpirk!
8. In the beginning, it took 30 stories to reach 200,000 words but another 30 stories later, and I had written twice that amount. Scarily enough, 30 stories after that, the word count had tripled – which is why, I think, I reached 1,000,000 words in just two years of writing.
9. As for popularity, here is a break-down:

Multiple-Chapter Stories:

Playtime – Non-pairing story which had the most popular following on FFNet while being written
The Man Who Never Was – Runner-up

Forget Me Not – Pairing story which had the most popular following on FFNet while being written
Along Comes a Stranger – Runner-up

Confessions of a Southern Gentleman – Pairing story which had the most popular following on FFNet and AO3 collectively
A Quarter South – Runner-up

The White Horse – Non-pairing story which had the most popular following on FFNet and AO3 collectively
No runner up

Multiple-Chapter Stories posted all at once

If I Had to Keep You – Pairing story which was the most popular after it was posted
The Holiday Waywards – Runner-up

Of Sacraments and War – Non-pairing story which was the most popular after it was posted
All His Yesterdays – Runner-up

One-Shots (or Two-Shots posted all at once)

Cookie and Cakes Oh My! – Pairing one-shot which was very popular after it was posted on FFNet
I Bake For You – Runner-up

A Comfort to Share – Non-pairing one-shot which was very popular after it was posted on FFNet
Color Me a Vulcan – Runner-up

All Fall Down – Pairing one-shot which was very popular on FFNet and AO3 collectively
Fair and Fine – Runner-up

Under the Influence – Non-pairing one-shot which was very popular on FFNet and AO3 collectively
The Express – Runner-up

Related Posts:

• A Headcanon and Some News – from September 1, 2014
• Dear readers – from June 10, 2014
• Just An Update on Life: KLMeri – from June 7, 2014
• Update for the Holidays – from December 28, 2013
• No, Brain! – from July 20, 2013