Why does my story appear blank even though there are thousands of words?

You need blank lines between paragraphs, not just cause it looks better but because of how the internal Drupal parser works. Without line breaks, the parser tries to process the entire post as one single paragraph, runs out of memory and fails. It should give an error message but mostly, it doesn't.

So, please, blank lines between paragraphs for anything longer than about 2000 words.

Hugs,
Erin