User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/Halloween Special: 2000 Edits, LTDI Previews, and Real-life TDI Girls/@comment-2016601-20101031235101/@comment-1874924-20101101001920

Well, you don't need a huge edit count to make a mark. If you win FU this month, as now seems likely, you will set the record for lowest edit count by a FA/FU winner. (Gigi had about 640 edits when she was Featured back in November.) My edit count was no higher than yours the first time I ran for FU and placed a strong 3rd, so edit count isn't everything.

When I cracked the Top Authors listing, I think I had something like 740 edits. Now, you need roughly twice that to be in the Top 25.

As for LTDI, these previews are simply more evidence (as if any was needed) that I'm a perfectionist and so don't do things by halves. Also, I mentioned on my User page that LTDI will be patterned after one of the world's great literary classics. The chapter titles in these previews may give you a clue as to which literary classic that is. (The scene titles are just for the previews, and won't appear in the finished story.)

I thought people would like to be able to put a face with the name; and I don't have the Internet safety issues (not to the same degree, anyway) that minors have.