User blog:Gideoncrawle/Milestone Trifecta: 200K, 120K and Over 9000

In the last week, I hit three milestones at about the same time:
 * 1) 200K: Including notes, I have now written 200,000 words on The Legend of Total Drama Island. It’s still nowhere close to being finished, although every episode except #10 (the cooking challenge), #24 (the orienteering challenge) and #27 (TDDDDI) have finished scenes.
 * 2) 120K: With the posting of Eleventh Night last week, the word count of LTDI’s posted portion now exceeds the word count of Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan, making it my largest page. (Wiki veterans may recall that TDI-G&S was the wiki’s longest page for quite some time). The main TDI-G&S page has about 115K words, plus about 3800 words (not counting verse duplication) in the character pages. Including notes, the posted portion of LTDI now comes in at just shy of 120K words. TDI-G&S still has a larger byte count because it’s so full of hyperlinks, and because it has so many more hard line breaks due to all the verse. (Having a lot of hard line breaks adds more bytes than you might think.)
 * 3) OVER 9000: This, of course, is my edit count. I appear to have gone over shortly after posting my subscriber notices for Eleventh Night. I have averaged 200-250 edits per month for most of the 3+ years I’ve been here, but for various reasons I’ve only averaged about half that over the last few months.

My recent decline in activity here on the wiki hasn’t just been in editing. What with the sports photography season that ended in March, creating and crosswicking pages for my stories on TV Tropes (as well as helping with Rhonda's TVT page), and porting my stories to Fanfiction.net, I’ve fallen badly behind on my reading and just can’t seem to get untracked to catching up. I’m going to make more of an effort in the next few weeks, starting with Rhonda’s latest chapter, which I’m about halfway through. I’ve also fallen two or three chapters behind on AJ’s story, which is another that I’ve been commenting on regularly. There are also a couple of stories that I’ve promised to check out and still haven’t done, as well as a few that I’d like to check out but haven’t formally committed to.