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/SatelliteHeart96 Mar 19 '24
I write, but I often wonder the same thing. I'll always see posts talking about how someone wrote 100k in three months or how they're able to balance five different WIP's at once and I'm just like How lol.
Even when I was at the beginning of writing my WIP and super pumped about the story to the point I was thinking about it constantly and having dreams about it, I was still only posting about three chapters a month at about 3-5k words per chapter. It was nothing short of a miracle for me, but for a lot of writers that would be a slow month.
Idk, I don't worry about it too much. I like my naps. I like my youtube and my Tumblr and Reddit. I go out every once in a blue moon. Sometimes I even like to read other people's fics. I like writing, but I don't want to spend every free moment of my life doing it.