#book data

50 is a rough page estimate. The accurate length is 15,883 words.

If you want to visualize and compare it, I've graphed the length of each entry and given some other entry stats in another post linked here.

In 2017, I read 32,476 pages in 108 books—the longest was almost 1,500 pages, The Fiery Cross, part of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. I also reached my target of 10% authors of colour, but barely. The books I read featured diverse authors: a British woman of Indian descent, a black male preacher from the United States, and some harrowing nonfiction narrative by a female Filipino voice. Though I hit my target with 14 books (13%), I can assess this with some hefty criticism of myself: I read too many books by white people, and that has to change in 2018.

Of my effort to read more of women’s voices, I am prouder—especially because I didn’t track this throughout the year and simply followed my heart when it came to what I wanted to read. 61% of all books I read this year were by women—fiction, nonfiction, fantasy, young adult and feminist all included.

It wasn’t until he looked at the script after the final draft that he realized...his movie’s ending was kind of dull with the standard “beat villain and kick her ’splodey dead” and no big spectacle to set it apart from the other entries at the Super Hero Fair. He needed a flashy climax to get the audience interested.

Thank you so much for this ask! What an interesting data set this one is! Lots of unexpected information.

So first off, if you just want to visualize the author breakdown, ta-dahhhh!

Seward was staunchly in the lead, talking his head off and burning through those wax recording drums like no ones business. Poor Mina for having to transcribe it all. In total his words made up 39.3% of Dracula. Nearly 40%!

Seward unsurprisingly had the most individual entries overall at 47, and had the longest streak for being the narrator in an entry at 10 days (09/02 - 09/11) with Mina following right behind at 9 days (08/10 - 08/19)

Mina surprisingly was 3rd overall both in word count and number of entries. She wasn't even in the top 3 for most words in a day which is as follows.

1 - Seward October 3rd - 9942 words

2 - Seward September 29th - 7206 words

3 - Jonathan October 3rd - 5944 words

Van Helsing only had 9 entries total but still came in number 4 for word count, in front of Lucy. It's interesting to note that the amount a person writes doesn't correlate to the amount of time they are being written about/appear. Which is why Arthur and Quincey don't even beat out the newspaper clippings for words, lol.

There are lots of authors we only hear from a single time, like Sister Agatha. So I've decided to make a small fry pie as well. (Authors under ~500 words)

The captain of the Demeter and Van Helsing both had more days written than Lucy! Though I didn't break up number of entries, like when the log of the Demeter had 3 or 4 on one day or Lucy wrote a letter and in her diary.

The people have spoken! Here is the total length of the remaining Dracula Daily entries!

scroll if you don’t want to know - I am unsure about tagging this as a spoiler as it only relates to the story in a meta way

Total, the journey takes us 189 days, 111 of those have entries (58.73%)

We have 34 days left until the last entry November 7th, 22 of those days have entries (64.71%)

There are only 3 breaks left, from 10/07 to 10/10, 10/12 to 10/14, and 10/18 to 10/23

Bram’s longest on streak was 19 days - 09/17 to 10/06

Bram’s longest off streak was  11 days - 06/06 to 06/16

The longest remaining day is Sunday 10/30 at 4,983 words (10 to 20 pages ~30% of the longest entry 10/03)

There are 29,117 words left till the end (There has been 131,000 so far)

Google says it takes around 5 minutes to read 1,000 words

October 31st has 420 words (yes really)

Total length of each Dracula Daily entry!

Figured I would repost it this year in a less specific date way. Scroll if you don’t want to know! - I’m only tagging this as potential spoiler, as it only relates to the story in a meta way.

Total, the journey takes 189 days, 111 of those have entries (58.73%)

Bram’s longest on streak is 19 days - September 17th to October 6th

Bram’s longest off streak is 11 days - June 6th to June 16th

In the top three positions for length we have September 29th “An Eventful Day” - 9,034 words October 1st “The Attack” - 10,259 words October 3rd “A Day Full of Action” - 15,883 words

There are 160,720 words total, making an average of 1,448 words per entry, (though 22% of the total book is in the top 3 days)

Google says it takes around 5 minutes to read 1,000 words

October 31st has 420 words (yes really)

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