Some Statistics on A Scratch On Shining Armor · 9:30pm Mar 13th, 2017
So I went completely mental over the weekend and decided to compile some numbers regarding ASOSA and share them with you all!
*All word counts are derived from the original Google Docs copies of the chapters, as Fimfiction inflates the numbers.
First chapter was written on May 9th, 2013 and published on October 5th, 2014
Last chapter was written and published on March 11th, 2017
1402 days passed between writing the first chapter and writing the last chapter. That’s 3 years 10 months and 2 days.
888 days passed between publishing the first and last chapter. That’s 2 years 5 months and 6 days
The longest duration between publishing chapters was between chapters 5 (Change of Pace) and 6 (Concerto) which was 465 days, or 1 year 3 months and 9 days
The shortest chapter in A Scratch On Shining Armor was chapter 21 ([Interlude] The Favor) at 1,749 words
The longest chapter in A Scratch On Shining Armor was chapter 38 (All Good Things) at 9,610 words
The total number of words in A Scratch On Shining Armor is 177,553.
The average length of a chapter in A Scratch On Shining Armor is 4,672 words
The name ‘Vinyl’ was written 2,059 times and accounted for 1.16 percent of total words
The name ‘Shining’ or ‘Twinkle’ was written 1,593 times and accounted for .9 percent of total words
The story switched Points of View (PoV) 136 times
We observed Vinyl’s PoV 53 times or 38.9 percent of the total story
We observed Shining’s PoV 43 times or 31.6 percent of the total story
We observed Cadance’s PoV 16 times or 11.7 percent of the total story
We observed Intrepid’s PoV 8 times or 5.8 percent of the total story
We observed Celestia’s PoV 6 times or 4.4 percent of the total story
We observed Galea’s PoV 4 times or 2.9 percent of the total story
We observed Skyward Glory’s PoV 3 times or 2.2 percent of the total story
We observed Twilight Sparkle’s, Air Waves’, and Cedar’s PoV 1 time each or .7 percent of the total story each
Mmmmm... Statistics. I adore having this kind of useless information! I don't know why but it's always so much fun to look at.
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I thought so too! There's something pleasing about some good ol' fashioned raw data.
I love this. It also makes me feel less bad for the year-long delay since I published the last chapter in one of my own stories... at least I'm not alone!
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Sometimes you need to take a little break and that's okay! You'll come back to it later and you'll finish it!
4454892 Thanks for the encouragement
And because I didn't mention it before, thank your your story as well! I loved it.
Data makes my inner nerd happy