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but when I consider the amount of time that goes into fic versus art for me, it seems like fanartists are the ones getting the shaft.

What do you mean by this? Because I spend hours and hours brainstorming an idea, reviewing canon for canon correctness and in character-ness of my characters, then writing the fic, editing the fic (and most my fics are just 5k and shorter) for, less than 100 kudos and maybe a few comments. I know that's truth for other writers as well.

It takes me half an hour to an hour to pump out 1,000 of words. One of my fics is only 1700 words long, and it has a little over 150 kudos and about a dozen comments. On Tumblr it has about 70 notes. I am a total seat-of-the-pants writer when it comes to fanfic and only do minimal editing.

By contrast even my most minimal/basic fanart takes at least 8 hours of work, and may get no comment-type feedback whatsoever. Proportionately, based on time-inputted, it does not get as much feedback.

Okay, but that's you...? It certainly takes me and plenty of other writers I know considerably more time to "pump" out 1k words for considerably less feedback. Your experience sounds atypical, to be honest, unless you are writing for a large fandom and a popular pairing.

Okay, but that's you...?

Yes? You wandered into a subthread based on my opinions and experiences, and asked me to elaborate on them?

It certainly takes me and plenty of other writers I know considerably more time to "pump" out 1k words for considerably less feedback.

I don't know about feedback amounts, but the writing speed isn't atypical. Most writers do about 1000 words in 30 minutes to 2 hours. There was a rather long FFA thread about it, and it's came up on Absolute Write and a few other forums.

unless you are writing for a large fandom and a popular pairing.

That ship in particular makes up 0.033 of the fics in the fandom, so it's not what I would call popular.

I'd say that's pretty much just your experience though. I mean, you can't compare a 1k oneshot to a hand-painted picture anymore than you can compare a 100k epic to a scribble done in under an hour.

Yeah, and sometimes a doodle will get 2,000 notes and a oneshot will languish with 10. There are a lot of factors at play beyond the medium/format.

I mean, you can't compare a 1k oneshot to a hand-painted picture anymore than you can compare a 100k epic to a scribble done in under an hour.

Can't you though? If you know that it took you 100 hours to write the epic, and it got 5 notes, then you can establish the feedback-to-time ratio for it and compare it to the doodle. If the doodle took an hour, but got 500 notes, then you have a massively disproportionate time-to-feedback ratio.

Some of my most time consuming fanarts haven't gotten any notes so~

Yeah, I've seen some really beautiful art out there that clearly took a lot of time and skill, and I'm like "10 notes?! that's ridiculous!". It makes me really sad to see super talented artists that don't get a lot of love.

I draw and I can easy put out sketches in 20 minutes that'll get notes.

A piece properly composed, colored takes longer yeah, but compare the time that it takes for a longfic (multiple years). Fanart never takes that long.

but compare the time that it takes for a longfic (multiple years)

Depends on the writer. Some writers do multiple novels a year. Stephen King wrote The Running Man in a week.

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