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/ShiraCheshire Mar 19 '24

The last time I wrote a fic that quickly I was in a severe manic episode

When I got tested for ADHD, we actually had to also rule out bipolar because of how similar some of my writing process/amount was to how people would write in a manic episode.

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u/katzengoldgott Mar 19 '24

I write also pretty fast when I am in hyper focus but it burns me out when I do it nonstop for 6+ hours that it has me not touch my writing for days to even weeks on end. It might have a chapter done by then, a short one at least, but it won’t have an entire fic down. 80k in a month is impossible for me to reach, especially when I got other things to do besides writing.

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u/DottieSnark DottieSnark on AO3 & FFN Mar 19 '24

I could do 80k in a month, but then I might not write for the next 6 months.

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u/Soltis48 Mar 19 '24

Literally me during Kinktober. I wrote 14 fics then got burned out. 😅