My Prose Statistics

As of tonight, by my count, I have read in excess of 20000 people on Prose.

Except they weren't all people.

In fact, the bulk majority of them are advertisements. By my count, nearly 13000.

That means 65% of Prose is set up as writers who are not writers, but salesmen.

That means only 35% of what I have seen in nearly 5 years are real stories written by real people. Some good, some great, some in that half of the class that makes the upper half possible.

Of those 35% of the 20000, over 70% are no longer active.

That leaves barely 2100 active Prose writers I have encountered.

Of this 2100, 75% have never written past 10 entries.

Thus, of the 20000 people I have read on Prose, only 500 or so are truly active.

That is around 2.5% of all of the Prose entries are real, active, and engaged on Prose.

Should this sample size be indicative of the whole, the 2.5% is also of the whole.

Why is this percentage so small?

Prose offers a multitude of services and opportunities for free.

There are brilliant works on Prose just waiting to be discovered (diamonds in the rough, so to speak). The work is worth the effort both in discovering such gems and in creating one for yourself.

If you are of the coveted 2.5% and you have a reason for the 2.5%, please reply. I cannot be the only one on Prose stymied by this math.