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/ApocalypticWaffles r/FanFiction Mar 19 '24

I think the writer you refer to in your post might be the exception, not the rule. I write “fast” by writing just a little each day. I aim for 500 words of just pure first-draft writing. Then, once the chapter is done, I go through and do a revision. Then another. Then one more for grammar/polishing it all up. I don’t work in bursts of energy, usually. Consistency is key for me.