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Actually, looking at my word documents, the first two 'In the' series came to 20kb in Word but only come out at 8kb once on the archive, so I'd suspect the same will happen for the other two. I'm not quite sure where that K-count number on the Archives comes from but I know it's not a Kb count from WORD. I believe Michael once said that it's Kb count from a plain text version of story. In WORD 2007, Lois & Clark Do 100 Crimes was 29Kb, but when I translated the file to plain text it went down to 16Kb (which it's listed on the list). Hope that helps.
VirginiaR.
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 Yes, it's very likely I said that once  You can also get Word to give you the character count by clicking on the word count located in the status bar at the bottom left. Character Count (incl. spaces) is the number you're looking for. It's possible that this also adds the number of characters from the comments, plus, line breaks in plain text file get counted as two characters. But it's a close approximation that should hold up except for edge cases when you're right on the brink between two sizes.  Michael
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I'll save them off as plain text tomorrow. I'll do the same for my stories. Those are word document counts I provided. Most of them could drop a category as a result.
Herb replied, “My boy, I never say … impossible.” "Lois and Clarks" My stories can be found herekj
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I think I squeaked one in under the wire for last year. It hasn't been sent to the archive yet, but should be in the very near future. Can we add "Now or Never" to the list? In plain .txt format it comes to 43K.
Thanks!
Lois: You know, I have a funny feeling that you didn't tell me your biggest secret.
Clark: Well, just to put your little mind at ease, Lois, you're right.
Ides of Metropolis
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Thanks to everyone here for their input and thanks to Groobie for supplying me with links to ALL fanfics. I will be updating the website this weekend. Make sure you take a look around because the kerth site was a part of the major over haul of the web sites I run. www.kerthawards.com
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The Kerth site has been updated.
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Okay, finally got this done.
PML - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 190 K
HiM - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 139 K
ASU - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 181 K
Witness - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 132 K
Illusions of Grandeur - Matchmaker Style clock in at - 122 K
Hattie and Mr. 'X' Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1P clocks in at 213 K
Last edited by KenJ; 01/12/15 03:29 PM.
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Ken, we have the fic size already posted on the Kerth site so please check there to make sure they match.
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Those were the k counts for Word docs. These are the k counts for .txt documents which is what you are going by.
This moves a few of my stories to the mid-length category.
Sorry for the confusion.
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I just checked a couple more of my stories:
Halloween in Metropolis - Matchmaker Chronicles Vol 1 CD 29 K
Thanksgiving in Smallville - Matchmaker Chronicles Vol 1 CE 28 K
These are txt file k counts and both stories move to the Short Story category.
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bump... Nominations close on March 8th, get them in earlier than that to have your favorite stories and writers recognized.... bump
VirginiaR.
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