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We're coming up to another centenary with Bike, and I'd like to check that I keep pedalling or should that be peddling? Assuming Erin is happy to continue to host the longest shaggy dog story in history.
I have to warn you that from Friday 4th for a few days postings might be erratic due to my visit to Yorkshire to the TdF and then having a visitor when I get home.
I see some of you noticed a new Charlotte's Tale, I intend doing something with PFH - TBK when I have a bit of time, so that's the next project.
Angharad
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Bed, Bike and Beyond . . .
Don'tcha just LOVE Centenaries?!! OK, I do, and there are evidently a lot of others, too, if you keep track of Kudoes, Angharad, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep it up!!!!
Hugs,
Miriam
BIKE Forever
It is entirely your choice.
I love your writing, but I do not insist that it be "Bike". Though if you keep on with Bike I will enjoy reading it. It might be a choice for you to Publish it both in dead tree and on line. The thing that is so powerful about bike is while it is about a TG woman and her TG children, it has so many other aspects of life in it.
And in the beginning, Cathy was quite irascible and insecure, but over the years, she has found her place and seems about as secure as anyone. The story is extremely realistic in so many ways and depicts a very normal life.
If in the final analysis you feel you have spoken the tale of bike to it's logical conclusion, then I would feel privileged to read what ever you write.
Much peace
Gwen
I don't know that dead tree
I don't know that dead tree form would work out well.
I mean, 'À la recherche du temps perdu' by Marcel Proust was only about 2400 pages long, and about 1.267 million words. That was seven volumes.
Using the offsite archive at tglibrary.com (which is down, so I used archive.org), I grabbed one fifty chapter run.
Deducting 575 words for duplicates in the headers (for example), that still leaves 65,000 words in the first 50 chapters. Extrapolating from that (that's why I used 50 chapters, some are longer, some are shorter), that means that 2400 chapters is 48 50 chapter sets.
That's 3,120,000 words. (2.462 times the number that Proust wrote). So, it would be a 17/18 book set.
Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopoedia (1993 edition) is 29 volumes. (Go Angharad!)
Hm. Thinking it over, maybe I'll set it as a "long term project" to import it into Scribus, and see how expensive it would be on Lulu or similar.
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That statistical dump all done, I'll say this - even though I can't kudo anymore on this laptop, I still firmly appreciate and enjoy EAFOaB.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
The master and commander series...
...is 21 books, each of which is about 90,000 words or more. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Master and Commander
The series is actually 20 completed books and a published uncompleted book 21. Book 21 is only a third completed and the published title is Book 21. Unfortunately for us M&C fans, the author died while writing book 21. Fortunately, book 20 ends in a way that is ok for a series ending.
As for Bike, in my opinion, it is NOT in a finished condition :)
Let's see. 20 completed
Let's see. 20 completed books at 90,000 words each would be 1.8 million words. More than Proust, but still less than Angharad.
I will also say that Master and Commander is a _series_. Both EAFoB and 'A la recherche du temps perdu' are single stories.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
There's also...
There's also the land of Oz. Baum wrote 14 novels, and various others have written almost 50 more.
Then, of course there are things like "The Hardy Boys", "Nancy Drew" etc... Which while individually aren't great lengths, there are over 100 of each I think. Of course, Bike's a much higher quality of writing and tackles much more difficult topics... :-)
It does exist
in dead tree format - one copy, anyway, held by a dear friend. This was it up to episode 1263, so about half the current size.
I have suggested she get the floor strengthened.
Angharad
Angharad
14 times 500 pages on my HD
That's what I have stored so far, well the last not really filled yet. But it is worth every bit of the space it needs. And I would gladly buy more HDs if that will become necessary. SO please keep on to give us more pleasure dear Angahard.
(it is DIN A4 pages)
Ginnie
GinnieG
Oh yes please, keep adding to
Oh yes please, keep adding to this marvellous, entertaining, never boring tale for as long as you wish. I still welcome each and every episode of Bike, and many a night is not complete without an update. It never bores me.
As long as you are not tired
As long as you are not tired of writing bike yes, I want more. Glad to hear that you will be working on PFH-TBK as I love that story.
Addicition...
See I'm seriously addicted to Bike... I shudder to think of the withdrawal if you should somehow decide to stop writing it!
On behalf of the legions of Bike addicts, let me just say "Moar! We want Moar!!!"
That's all...
Abby
Well....
Well, it's this way...
You keep writing, I'll keep reading... :-)
Annette
I love Bike and your other
I love Bike and your other scribbles. Please continue writing whatever makes you happy. I'll keep on reading it!
Kris
{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}
Bike and On
Your the Writer it up to you want continue even I want it continue BUT that totally is your decision not ours. But thanks for many years of BIKE it has been enjoyable.
Richard
Stories
You keep writing, if you're not too tired, and I'll keep reading all your wonderful stories including Totally Insane :)
Hugs, Sarah Ann
I will be happy just knowing you're there.....
And being able to read something periodically, whether another chapter of Bike, PFH-TBK, a new story, or even just a blog or an occasional personal note. I have come to think of you as a special friend, someone who I can rely on for advice or a kind word when I need it, and a talented writer.
Whatever you choose to do I will be content in simply knowing you.
Dallas
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Yes
You write it, I‘ll read it. :-)
Janice
To boldly go
Bike: the final frontier. These are the adventures of a dormouse counter. Her ongoing mission: to ride new byways meeting strange new people, to seek out new recipes and new dilemmas, to boldly go where no cyclist has gone before.....
I know I'm a newbie to Bike Angharad (not the only one) but it does feel like something special. Everything ends someday but I hope you feel the urge to continue for a good while yet so I can, like Achilles chasing Zeno's tortoise, never quite catch up.
Rhona
Rhona McCloud
More Bike?
Doormice ...or is it doormouses ... or doormeese?
Anyhoo, Doormouses forever!!
Red MacDonald
No,
it's dormice/meece/mouses etc. Dor as in domier to sleep, not door - doh!
Angharad
You just have to keep on going
I only came into your story when you reached 2260 or something like that, I said I had to catch up, so far I have
managed to read the first 800 episodes, if you stop now, I'll catch you up!
Keep going girl
Christina
Thought I'd already commented
But as long as you can keep writing this tale, I'll be delighted to keep reading it.
More
Simply put, more please!!