January stats

Just in case anyone is interested, a couple of stats.

During January, we recorded 213 short stories published in the venues we follow.

Of those, I’ve read or partly read 73.

The distribution of my scores for the stories I’ve read looks like this:

5 – 1

4.5 – 2

4 – 4

3.5 – 5

3 – 46 

2.5 – 5

2 – 10

As you can see, 3 is my default score, for a story that’s competently written but for whatever reason, doesn’t grab me. A story has to be particularly hard to read to score a 2 or a 1, and has to be above average to score a 4, and a great story to score a 5

Anyway, it’s February! Onward…