User blog:Gideoncrawle/Thoughts on becoming a Top Author

Today (6 June) I achieved a milestone that wasn’t even on my radar until quite recently. I am now on the Top Authors listing for the first time, at #25. I will probably be #24 tomorrow, since I logged almost 90 edits today, mostly from fleshing out my TDI-G&S character pages.

I might rise a couple more places in the near future, but that will probably be it, since the boost I got from preparing TDI-G&S for the wiki has pretty much run its course; and because I don’t know what the people below me are up to, it’s possible that I might fall off the list at some point. Still, I can honestly say I’ve done it.

When I first joined the wiki, I had no idea that I would be anywhere near as active as I have been. These sites can be terribly addictive, which is why I have avoided them in the past. That’s as may be, my willpower “weakness” has been your gain. (And it's all your "fault", guys. The reason I have been so active is because I was received so warmly.)

TDI-G&S Update
On a peripherally related note, episode #3 of TDI-G&S will be going up shortly. In future weeks, I intend to continue posting new chapters on Sundays, unless my readers make it known that they prefer another day.

I will generally post TDI-G&S chapters once per week, because that’s what my readers have told me they prefer; but when we get into the 2nd quarter of the season, some might go up twice a week because those episodes tend to be shorter and more lightly referenced. As I may have noted elsewhere, although TDI-G&S has an average of 33 verse references per episode, only 3 of the first 10 episodes have that many; and the 7 most lightly-referenced episodes are all in the first half of the season. The reason for this is that, as the TDI contestant roster dwindled, leaving fewer characters to track, the stories became more complex and detailed.