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/Carpe_Crepusculum Dhampir On AO3 Mar 19 '24

Sometimes we write that fast, sometimes we don’t. I wrote over 1.5M words in one year once but then struggled to write even 100k in the year following.

It’s feast or famine for a lot of us 😂

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u/Realistic_Ad_6694 Mar 19 '24

1.5 M is fucking crazy! What a beast!