User blog comment:Fadingsilverstar16/TGIF!/@comment-1874924-20100417010244

I got the word counts by pasting the stories into my word processing software and doing the count from there. TDR is ~84k words (so much for being "tiny") including peripherals such as the Trivia section, and TDC is ~61k words, including such things as chapter headings.

Note that the wiki's Long Pages listing is based on byte count, which isn't solely dependent on word count. If you have a lot of specialized formatting, such as italics, boldface, or section headings, that adds to the byte count. So do line feeds, so a story with a lot of dialogue and speakers changing every sentence or two will have a higher byte count, other things being equal. Likewise, putting in a lot of consecutive line feeds (a common competition story device to force the reader to scroll down to see who was just voted off) adds more to the byte count than you might think.

Including a lot of links (e.g. to character pages) or illustrations also drives up the byte count. Indeed, its legion of links to external websites is the main reason TDI-G&S will probably end up with a page size ~3 times larger than anything currently on the wiki.