[ SECRET POST #4983 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4983 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[11thmirror]

It's very situational. Sometimes a writer plans a one or two chapter story, can't work out how to end it and winds up dragging it out for way longer than they should have. Sometimes a writer thinks there's only enough inspiration in them for a short story, and the muse hits them with a 2-by-4 somewhere around the 10,000 word mark, and before they know it they've hit 50,000 words and are still going strong.
Anything can be rubbish in the hands of a poor writer, and anything can turn out marvellously in the hands of a gifted writer.

[(Anonymous)]

Very much seconding this. A lot of the best fic writers I know tend to start out with very modest estimates of how longer their fics will be, and then they get into the flow of the writing and their inspiration mojo is working, and their fic ends up four times as long. If anything, the fact that they didn't try to rush things is an indicator of them being good writers. When they feel that things need more development to really land, they give it more development.

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IAWTP

A story that extends its length by that much *usually* means that something happened and it took flight. The story got hit by lightning and came to life. That's where the best, iddiest, most satisfying stuff often comes in, and that's a lot of what I want from fic.

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ayrt

Fair enough, I hadn't really thought of it that way.