Longest-running, largest stories currently on SOL?

[Tom Frost]

I was looking over my notes for New Rome yesterday and realized I already have notes on a string of nine possible novels. If I wrote one every six months, I'd be done approximately February 2018.

It got me wondering: What's the longest series currently on SOL - either in terms of titles or sheer word volume? Specifically, I was thinking about series written by a single author although I suspect that without that restriction, something like the NiS "series" might take the crown.

--Tom Frost

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[Deadly Ernest]

It's not a series, but a single story, however, I think Deja Vu Ascendency would likely be the longest story at SOL at 18,667 kb.

[Daniel]

Wes Boyd has been writing many stories for different series, part of which is posted here on SOL. The total length of his works might not amount to the most words written ever, but he's up there when you count the total number of his published novel-length stories.

RoustWriter has been working on his story Arlene and Jeff since 2006, which definitely makes it a stand out. It's the third largest story on SOL by now and the author has been faithfully posting a chapter per week for the last seven years now. I don't think he ever missed a week.

Most recently there's rlfj's monster of a story. I haven't counted of course, but I estimate the 5,461KB amount to more than a million words published within the past two and a half years.

[Lazeez Jiddan]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Tom Frost wrote:

I was looking over my notes for New Rome yesterday and realized I already have notes on a string of nine possible novels. If I wrote one every six months, I'd be done approximately February 2018.

It got me wondering: What's the longest series currently on SOL - either in terms of titles or sheer word volume? Specifically, I was thinking about series written by a single author although I suspect that without that restriction, something like the NiS "series" might take the crown.

Longest running ‘Serial’ on the site (Current) is ‘Arlene and Jeff’ by RoustWriter. It ran so far for 7 years. And has the most accesses. Roughly 2,235,000 words.

Longest running ‘Serial’ on the site (not current) is ‘Robin’ by john smith. It ran for 9.5 years. Roughly 1,597,000 words.

Longest running universe is indeed the Naked in School universe. From 2002 and still current. Roughly 5,940,000 words combined from multiple authors. That’s what’s on SOL. the ASSTR collection of the universe may be larger. I haven’t checked really as many aren’t allowed by our rules.

Largest serial on the site by volume is Déjà Vu Ascendancy. Roughly 3,750,000 words. I’ve never heard of a longer single volume work. Its size kills most ebook readers while trying to open the EPUB version from the site and no Kindle has been able to do it either so far (to my knowledge).

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Lazeez Jiddan
Storiesonline.net

[Wes]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:00:51 PM UTC-5, Daniel wrote:

Wes Boyd has been writing many stories for different series, part of which is posted here on SOL. The total length of his works might not amount to the most words written ever, but he's up there when you count the total number of his published novel-length stories.

I don't know for sure, but I currently have 32 novels on spearfishlaketales.com. If the average size is 100,000 words -- a guess that's probably low -- that would mean that I have 3,200,000 words posted on the site. There's at least a couple of million more words in the pipeline. I didn't realize it was that much until I just worked this out!

Maybe sometime I'll have to add it up if I can't think of anything better to do.

My longest novel is 324,000 words, and there are a couple more in the 200k range. The smallest is about 84k.

-- Wes 

[Lew]

"Florida Friends" series by Dual Writer has 14 entries here on SOL at  http://storiesonline.net/library/show_series.php?id=734  .

 

Lew

[Sam]

According to this, the Pyrosian Chronicles by Fel (two subseries or really one long one) is over 16 million words.
He also has a few other very large series/universes, although I don't think they are as big.

[Wes]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:02:06 PM UTC-5, Wes wrote:

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:00:51 PM UTC-5, Daniel wrote:

Wes Boyd has been writing many stories for different series, part of which is posted here on SOL. The total length of his works might not amount to the most words written ever, but he's up there when you count the total number of his published novel-length stories.

I don't know for sure, but I currently have 32 novels on spearfishlaketales.com. If the average size is 100,000 words -- a guess that's probably low -- that would mean that I have 3,200,000 words posted on the site. There's at least a couple of million more words in the pipeline. I didn't realize it was that much until I just worked this out!

Maybe sometime I'll have to add it up if I can't think of anything better to do.

I got curious, and was at a point where I didn't want to start a big, tough chapter late in the evening, so I added it up. Boy, did I guess low!

I have approximately (I rounded each book to the nearest thousand) 4,578,000 words on spearfishlaketales.com, counting the book currently being posted as being complete. Books in the pipeline bring the total up to 6,700,000, with more to come. No wonder my hands get painful at times!

-- Wes

[Phantom]

While Fel's Works aren't posted on SOL but they are Very much worth reading  ......and it's not known totaly as the Pyrosian Chronicles 

 

Fel's collected 8 books and several short stories are "the story of Tarrin Kael or Sennadar Chronicles" if you prefer 

and they include the (Firestaff series) of 5 books and (the Pyrosian Chronicles) of 3 books

They can be found on his Fourm at ---- http://forums.sennadar.com/   

 

Another set of Book that is posted partly on SOL (the first book anyways) is Mike Cropo's-- A Spartan's war series

the rest of the books so far can be found at his Yahell Group ---- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WolvesandDragonsoftheBlood/

 

 

Phantom

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According to this, the Pyrosian Chronicles by Fel (two subseries or really one long one) is over 16 million words.
He also has a few other very large series/universes, although I don't think they are as big.

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:31:58 PM UTC-5, Lew wrote:

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