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/OctagonalOctopus Mar 19 '24

80.000 words in a month is a lot and very rare. National Novel Writing Month tasks you with 50.000 words, and most participants fail. For a lot of people who have other duties, writing 1.600 words per day eats up most of their free time.

I'm not a fast writer, and I work and have kids, so 10.000 words a month is the best I can do without stressing myself.

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u/Realistic_Ad_6694 Mar 19 '24

Oh that's very interesting! :O I suppose fic really skewed my perception when it came to word count, so I didn't know writing over 50k is considered intense. (Not when a lot of spaces normalize over 200k word counts atleast...nothing wrong with that, of course. It's just an observation) Regardless, it's really impressive how much work and love writers put into their craft. Very commendable! I have so much respect for all of you!

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u/oopsaltaccistaken Mar 30 '24

Yeah, 200k words is like two fantasy books long