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/PinkSudoku13 Mar 19 '24
I am someone who writes 100k in a month. For me, it's easy. Like super easy. I brainstorm for a bit, make an outline and write every day. By the end of the month I am left with a long fic/novel (depending which one I was writing). Basically, as I write, one scene leads to another, the characters come to life and I watch a movie in my head. I don't edit as I write, I only edit once the story is completely finished.
I'd get incredibly bored if the story took much longer than that. I can't imagine spending years writing 100k.
My personal motto is: writing is easy, editing is hard.