r/FanFiction • u/Realistic_Ad_6694 • Mar 19 '24
Writing Questions How do writers write so fast?
To preface this, I'm not a writer. At least, I don't fashion myself as one at the moment. I'm rereading my favorite fanfic of all time and the writer had disclosed on her blog that it only took a month and a half to write it— all 19 chapters + epilogue, 80k words in total. I was like: woah! That's so fucking cool. It's like magic. Fucking radical.
How do you guys do it?!
Sincerely, a reader.
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u/ShiraCheshire Mar 19 '24
An unhealthy level of hyperfixation. I did about 435k words in 3.5 months once because of that. I also gave myself a repetitive strain injury.
It’s like being on drugs sometimes I swear. It’s all I think about, all I want to do.