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October 1, 2008

#483: Fiction Rule of Thumb

Fiction Rule of Thumb

[[Line graph shown with an inverse curve]]

[[Y-Axis: Probability book is good]]

[[X-Axis: Number of words made up by author]]

[[The curve becomes less steep as the number of words increase]]

{{Quote at the bottom of the text}}“The Elders, or Fra’as, guarded the farmlings (children) with their krytoses, which are like swords but awesomer…” {{Fra’as, farmlings, krytoses and awesomer are italicised}}