User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Milestone Trifecta: 200K, 120K and Over 9000/@comment-1221823-20130512193431/@comment-1874924-20130513051700

120K is just the posted part. LTDI is currently #8 on the Long Pages listing by byte count, with TDI-G&S at #6. Some of the longer stories are ports from other sites, but we have two home-grown stories with word counts currently in the 170-180K range: Rhonda's story and Lilac's story.

When I first started writing LTDI, I estimated a finished word count of 200K, although that was pretty much a wild guess. I later revised that estimate to 250K, then the current estimate of 300K. It's starting to look like it could go higher still, especially since I'm including TDDDDI and a reunion chapter. By comparison, this wiki only has a handful of finished stories with word counts over 100K, and 50-70K seems to be the historical norm for the better competition stories here. But what can I say? My writing style is richly descriptive, and a high word count is the price of that.