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Anybody got a good way to describe metal that isn't dull gray, but isn't super silvery-gray or shiny or what-have-you? Thesaurus isn't helping. burnished to a dull, gray gleam? Burnished always makes me think of something that is not exactly shiny but still not dull either and gleam kind of gives me the same visual. LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Gunmetal gray, slate, lusterless, lackluster.
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The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
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We have a new addition to the list: 1. 1,810 The Longest Road: The Roads They Walked Alone Rac 2. 1,546 Masques Doc Klein's Labrat 3. 1,376 Long, Strange Trip L 4. 1,282 The Long Road Home Erin Klingler 5. 1,229 There's No Place Like Home ML Thompson 6. 1,224 Further on Down the Road Terry Leatherwood [Okay - so it's #6 on the list and not #5... Tis more than close enough for an honorable mention .] Carol
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One of mine is number six? Wow. Just think, if I'd only kept in all those deleted scenes...
Maybe someday I'll release a director's cut.
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Or if you'd stuck the three of them together...
BTW, where is 'End of the Road'?!?!
Carol [who spent way too much time yesterday reading Terry-fic]
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<breathes massive sigh of relief> I'm still number 5! I'm still number 5! I'm still number 5! 
She was in such a good mood she let all the pedestrians in the crosswalk get to safety before taking off again.
- CC Aiken, The Late Great Lois Lane
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Hey! I just noticed something. Three of the longest six have the word "Road" in the title. Two have the word "Home" Maybe if I'd titled my story "There's No Place Like The Road Home" it would have been number one. ML 
She was in such a good mood she let all the pedestrians in the crosswalk get to safety before taking off again.
- CC Aiken, The Late Great Lois Lane
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ML, you forgot long.
There's No Place Like The Longest Road Home, Except Maybe The Longer One That's Long.
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Missing Lois has made the grade. 8886 KB in Rich Text format 2298 KB in docx format (Word 2007) 485,386 Words 1756 pages, double spaced. And that's before I've even started on the sequel. /whispers/ Can someone pour some water over Michael's head? I think he passed out.
VirginiaR.
"On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling"
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/whispers:
The official byte-count's equal to the total number of characters, including punctuation and spaces. In ye olden days, it was created by saving the entire thing as a plaintext-file and uploading it to the archive.
Michael
PS: Nope, not passed out. /me likes these short vignettes.
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Originally posted by Darth Michael:
/whispers:
The official byte-count's equal to the total number of characters, including punctuation and spaces. In ye olden days, it was created by saving the entire thing as a plaintext-file and uploading it to the archive.
OK, I still think I'm there, Michael. Just by changing Ch. 1 to plain text, which is my shortest chapter, it came to 129KB, just 21KB more than docx KB. If I did that with each of my chapters... we'd end up with KBs somewhere between the Rich Text format and the docx format. Still nothing to sneeze at (unless someone is allergic to long stories). It's also why I included word count and page count. 
VirginiaR.
"On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling"
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Yeah... Just for now and since the stats' not current: #1 is CarolM's On the Other Hand: 2,129k At least, till Virginia's Missing Lois. I'm putting money down on 2,745k For the technically minded... The docx format is zipped. So, that's not good for measuring anything except relative size to other docx. RTF contains *way* too much verbose formatting information, so same thing. I'm going with rule of thumb: bytes = wordcount * 6 Michael
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Hmm... OTOH may have been unseated huh? It does have a sequel in UP and at least one more unwritten. It clocks in at just over 400K words and 1090 pages in plain text format [using the standard formatting for the archive - single spacing, extra hard return between paras]. UP is not nearly as long and the other sequel/companion pieces wouldn't have been either. If you want an actual number, save it in txt format and see what that KB is... /eyes hard drive and contemplates new epic /
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Oooooooh... /gets all drooly over epic authors slinging ever-longer epics at one another all to the  and  of their fans/ Michael
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/snicker/ Don't count on it from me though . Working on all original stuff at the moment and for the foreseeable future .
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 The results are in! Missing Lois is the longest fanfic on the Archive! (Just posted tonight! I'd include the link, but as LabRat suggests - it's best for an e-reader!) According to the Archives it's 3,000 words shy of 1/2 million ![[Linked Image]](http://cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/g040.gif) , clocking in at 2757KB. I win: The Biggest Lack of a Social Life Award! ![[Linked Image]](http://cosgan.de/images/smilie/konfus/n022.gif) So, if you didn't get a chance to read it on the boards (all approx. 9 months of it), it's now ready and waiting and weighing down the servers over on the Archive! Or if you'd like to read it again, now that my excellent, super fantastic General Editor -- Marcelle  -- has smoothed out the bumps, and fixed all my characters' sighing  , it's a better read than it was before. Or if you just need some light reading for the next month or so, this is the story for you! What I am saying? It's a bit heavier than most of my stuff - definitely a drama. It's my take on what S5, and probably a bit of S6, could have been. Enjoy. As for me, I'm going to  and get back on my latest epic, which I'm hoping (  ) won't beat out ML for this prize next year. (She writes as she puts the finishing touches on Part 52 for Betas.)
VirginiaR.
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The results are in! Missing Lois is the longest fanfic on the Archive! (Just posted tonight! I'd include the link, but as LabRat suggests - it's best for an e-reader!) According to the Archives it's 3,000 words shy of 1/2 million , clocking in at 2757KB. Good Lord, woman! Congrats!
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![[Linked Image]](http://cosgan.de/images/smilie/musik/k015.gif) Michael
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by VirginiaR: <strong> As for me, I'm going to  Me and my big fat mouth. <<Part 135 posted tonight. "Missing Lois" was only 109 Parts>> I'll be lucky if this monster (Wrong Clark) makes it to the Archives before 2015. 
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It looks like "Wrong Clark" is probably our longest fic now, although by how much we still don't know.
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