23123 stories (88%) have at most 24 chapters, 9299 (36%) have at most 4. The mean is 44.3 chapters per story, but the median has to be much lower. Guessing 10, maybe?
On the other extreme: the top 10 stories (not the 10 biggest!) together have 2.4% of all chapters on the site. The Rulebook has 0.54% all on its own.
It does sound a little crazy, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
Popular stories with no real premise tend to make use of CHYOA's braching system to the fullest, and so end with an insane amount of chapters.
On the other hand, you have a thousand stories that simply never evolved past the first 5-10 chapters, or have 5000 words per chapter, or are simply just short stories with short reads.
As for the Wicker situation... there's a lot I wanna say there, but as far as objective facts go, Wicker runs the Image Inspiration story, which has a very simple formula of "[image > short chapter > image] repeat_forever"
He also seems to be very involved in the celebrity deepfake section of the site, which takes up a good chunk of stories.
Holy, that’s pretty wild! I always find it sad to start stories and find they’re unfinished (which happens a looot lol). It makes a lot more sense now that I see it laid out in your post. Kinda wish the adopt-a-story program was more popular, because that could cure this problem a lot, yes?
For me personally, starting a new story is where most of the fun is. I've tried to write sequels or endings to other people's stories, and I've never succeeded. What I have a shortage of is not ideas; it's time to turn those ideas into fully fledged stories.
And I assume that's true for most writers! Otherwise, we wouldn't have so many unfinished stories.
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