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I'm in the process of worldbuilding and creating a sort of history for the setting of my storygame, and it's probably going to take a very long time. With that said, I was wondering how long it took everyone else to write their stories. 

I tend to take a month for each storygame, maybe two. Among the Trees was done in a weekend, though, and the SWAT one took maybe a week.

So you wrote Achilles in a month? Impressive for an Irishman.

Or... was it Chase that did all the work?

Might've taken two months, I can't remember exactly. It was mainly me, although as I'm a narcissist and there's no one to claim otherwise, I'm taking all the credit. Achilles isn't even my longest game, that'd by Path of Death.

How long did that take?

A month, maybe a month and a half I think. It's about 90'000 words if a remember correctly.

Shit, the Hobbit's only 95,000 words long and it took Tolkien a couple of years. Fine writing there chap. 

I know, I'm spectacular.

Dead Man Walking is in the vicinity of a million words and Berka wrote it in about a year, I think. He released two games that year though...

OMS is roughly 40,000 words and I wrote it in 3 or 4 days or something, but it's pretty shitty.

Well, considering it's the 3rd highest storygame overall, it seems most people enjoyed it. How on earth did you write 40,000 words in 3 days?

First of all, it's an approximate word count and I haven't actually tested to ensure that it's accurate, so maybe I didn't!

But, basically, I was 17 and it was summer and I just didn't do anything else for three days. There was no story planning or (especially) proofreading, so I pretty much just outputted a stream of consciousness into my keyboard. I also type ludicrously quickly.

As far as the site rating, I think it's highly biased due to being an admin. I don't think it's even remotely deserving of that ranking and I'm not just saying that to be modest. It's quite linear, has a super obnoxious maze, is entirely indelicate, is jam packed full of cliches, and the writing is bad and full of grammatical and spelling errors.

Looks like you have a far better work ethic than I do. I have to force myself to write sometimes, it's difficult just to get your ideas onto the page. 

Yeah, I played through it once and while it was pretty good, it probably shouldn't beat out the likes of Necromancer or the Price of Freedom. 

I think it should narrowly make the top 25-50, personally. Thanks though, I appreciate it. I think it was probably less about work ethic and more about thinking that every word I wrote was golden ether and true perfection. Now, I'm slow, because I have the ability to be adequately self-critical.

Still waiting on that finished list of how you rate all the storygames on the site. Especially curious now that I see you've rated the third highest storygame so low. Though I do agree its rating is inflated.

@JJJ-thebanisher

I really need to resume work on that.

From what I remember DMW is actually smaller than Eternal in total word count - probably around 650,000 words. Mightily impressive.

Well, you're fucking wrong. DMW is over 1 000 000 words. 

"Fun Facts About The Game: 121 Variables, 2131 Pages, 6744 Links, 530,000+ Words (over half a million baby!)" - BerkaZerka

Link - http://chooseyourstory.com/forums/the-parlor-room/message/8495

Eternal has over 0.65 million words and is larger than DMW by a big margin.

Eternal Statistics (from IS):
495 rooms,
1 contributor(s),
549 choices,
148,720 hits,
0 loose ends,
0 rooms pending review,
648,067 words.

Somebody did their research. *starts slowly clapping*

So that's like an average of 125 words an hour, going with month. But then again, there's the matter of finding time to write and knowing what to write about.

2 hours.

Since this is your first story game I would highly recommend you create a smaller one first before moving on to more ambitious projects. Too many people think they can make this large masterpiece as their first work only to burn themselves out after a couple of months.

Personally my first one took a month or so I believe. Although I remember playing around with the editor for a while before actually committing to it.

I wrote my first story in little over a week, but that one wasn't exactly great. As for the rest, I have terrible motivation, and it usually takes me a few months to a few years until I actually publish something.

I'm approaching five years working on the bullshit I call 'creative writing' - two stories in particular that I keep procrastinating and forgetting about.