Suggested Change for SC rules (2018)
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 10:21 am
I would like to suggest a change to the SC rules for reading and get opinions. The current rule is that a book consists 50 pages of 250-300 word pages. This works out to books of 12,500 to 15,000 words. In reality a novel is typically above 75,000 words. The actual breakdown is:
Novel | 40,000 words or over
Novella | 17,500 to 39,999 words
Novelette | 7,500 to 17,499 words
So you can see that the current definition of a book is in fact a Novelette. The completed wordcount of someone who completed last years challenge with 100 books would have been just over a million words. But the original challenge was to read 100 novels. Since the average published paperback book is greater than 75,000 words, then you'd have more than 7.5 million words. The original SC winners would have encountered 7.5 times more words than last years winners.
I'm proposing that we change the page count of a book on the SCbot to be 175 pages of 250-300 words is equal to one book. This would mean 100 books would be equal to 4.3 million words. Still half the original challenge, but better than last year.
Changes to the rules have to be cleared with Christina, but I'm looking for a discussion.
Novel | 40,000 words or over
Novella | 17,500 to 39,999 words
Novelette | 7,500 to 17,499 words
So you can see that the current definition of a book is in fact a Novelette. The completed wordcount of someone who completed last years challenge with 100 books would have been just over a million words. But the original challenge was to read 100 novels. Since the average published paperback book is greater than 75,000 words, then you'd have more than 7.5 million words. The original SC winners would have encountered 7.5 times more words than last years winners.
I'm proposing that we change the page count of a book on the SCbot to be 175 pages of 250-300 words is equal to one book. This would mean 100 books would be equal to 4.3 million words. Still half the original challenge, but better than last year.
Changes to the rules have to be cleared with Christina, but I'm looking for a discussion.