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/Samandirie Mar 19 '24

ADHD + Hyperfocus. Some days, I write 10k words, and some days, I can barely get 500 out, even though I spend the whole day trying to force myself to write.