Originally posted by Artemis:
True, LabRat. What I was really trying to say is that Epic at 200k, IMHO, is a weak size for it. Maybe that should be "Long Story" or something. EPIC would be over 500k. Like a 4 hour movie. I just checked M.L. Thompson's file and hers run around 400k to 800k. And she does write good epic tales.
Yes, but if you have another category between 200K-500K then there will be even fewer of us in the Epic category and it will be dropped again. Let's take a quick unofficial look at the stats (this is from 1/1/2012-12/31/2012 and isn't a record of stories eligible for the 2013 Kerths as several of these were nominees for the 2012 Kerths):
Number of stories per KB count posted to the Archives in 2012:
200+K = 3
300+K = 3
500+K = 8 (although 2 of these were 900+K)
1000+K = 0
2000+K = 2 (Go FH and Me!
)
Total "epic" (current definition) stories posted to Archives in 2012 = 16
