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When writing a fictional short story, my word count trend resembles Freytag’s Pyramid (Follow-Up). Lucky, Isabel J.
Abstract
After reflecting on my original publication about short story word count trends, I decided to use the same methodology but with short stories (1 000 to 10 000 words) I wrote outside of an academic setting mainly because my recreational writing endeavours do not involve a word limit. Using six short stories that I wrote for fun between April and November 2023, I tested the hypothesis that there was a non-linear trend and the prediction that the trend resembled Freytag’s Pyramid. As I was writing each story, I used Google Sheets for tracking the word counts and creating the associated visual representations (i.e. scatter plot with a trendline). After each scatter plot was created, I compared the trendlines to Freytag’s Pyramid and saw structural similarity among all of them.
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When writing a fictional short story, my word count trend resembles Freytag’s Pyramid (Follow-Up).
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2023-12-21
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| Description |
After reflecting on my original publication about short story word count trends, I decided
to use the same methodology but with short stories (1 000 to 10 000 words) I wrote outside of an
academic setting mainly because my recreational writing endeavours do not involve a word limit.
Using six short stories that I wrote for fun between April and November 2023, I tested the
hypothesis that there was a non-linear trend and the prediction that the trend resembled Freytag’s
Pyramid. As I was writing each story, I used Google Sheets for tracking the word counts and
creating the associated visual representations (i.e. scatter plot with a trendline). After each scatter
plot was created, I compared the trendlines to Freytag’s Pyramid and saw structural similarity
among all of them.
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eng
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2024-01-16
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0438711
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Unreviewed
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Undergraduate
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