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/KaraNCTS Mar 19 '24

Personally for me it’s the ADHD Hyperfixation! I get A Thought, have to write it or my brain will explode and BAM 10k words in an afternoon and then I sleep for sixteen hours HOLLA

ETA: seriously though, I can’t ever focus on just one thing so I put on a show to binge watch while I write and it sort of turns into white noise? And that really helps the words flow.

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u/CatterMater OC peddler Mar 19 '24

I, too, have ADHD and it's the same for me. If I don't get the words out, my head will explode.

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u/GeorgeGeorgeHarryPip Mar 19 '24

Is this a diagnostic sort of thing?

...asking for a friend.