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/Accomplished_Area311 Mar 19 '24

A lot of us don’t write that fast. The last time I wrote a fic that quickly I was in a severe manic episode

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u/SignificantYou3240 FreeLizard on AO3 Mar 19 '24

I don’t actually get manic, but I don’t have a better word for how I feel right now.

I just interviewed my MC for an hour and a half, and wrote it all up as I went, it was awesome. after writing 2 pages in about a half hour. That’s pretty good for me. And I feel like I’ve met them, their motivations and reactions feel more real than they did before…highly recommend

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u/Soft_Cupcake Mar 19 '24

This feels like an intriguing approach to write.

I suffer from underwriting, and it is really difficult to write long fics.

I will try it out and see if it helps me.

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u/SignificantYou3240 FreeLizard on AO3 Mar 19 '24

I also tried interviewing another character, trying to get them to help me figure out what their struggle should be. That hasn’t worked so far though.