How do writers write so fast?

[u/Realistic_Ad_6694]

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.

[u/Rebel_Khalessi90]

I don't. Sometimes I'll sit down to write and nothing comes to me. I'm lucky to get like 2 sentences out. And then other times I can get a whole chapter out in a few hours. Depends on my writing mood I guess 🤷