[ SECRET POST #6197 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6197 ⌋

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02. http://imgur.com/LXt2eiY.png

[(Anonymous)]

*shrug* Different stories work for different people, and that includes style, length, etc.

I'm sure there are people out there who look at your economic fics and think "isn't that a bit sparse, dear?"

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I fall somewhere in the middle. I enjoy getting a bit flowery and more descriptive than strictly necessary to show specific moods and character details. But other authors go much further than me with that and are not to my taste at all. It's the same with authors who write very, very sparsely. This is a very personal stylistic choice, I don't feel one is better than another. They are just different ways of conveying a story. Sometimes depending on my mood I'll prefer reading one that I usually wouldn't!

[(Anonymous)]

The story takes however long it takes.

[(Anonymous)]

Each to her own as regards wordiness. But that's a wonderfully appropriate picture, secret-maker!

[(Anonymous)]

I mean... I've written stories that are around or under 30k and my longest one is just short of 500k. I didn't set out to write a story of a certain length in either case, I just had a plot in mind and it took however many words it took to tell it.

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[(Anonymous)]

Some of my fics are short. Others are long. I don't care about length. Why do you? Sometimes, a bigger story takes longer. I'm revving up to work on a loving rewrite of a game, for example, because the devs were clear they wanted to do more and had to cut corners on both plot, cutscenes, etc because of budget and I want to pay tribute to them for a game that's given me a lot of fun and friends. I know it's going to be long.

[(Anonymous)]

Droll choice of picture, secret-maker.

[(Anonymous)]

The picture you chose for this secret is amazing. I rarely set out to write long fics, but sometimes the story gets away from me and can’t be contained by a shorter word count (case in point, the gift fic I’m currently working on was supposed to be two chapters at most and is now past ten chapters).

[(Anonymous)]

I do sort of think that once you get beyond a certain length, maybe you should think about breaking it up into, like, a series. Where that length lies, well. I did read and enjoy It by Stephen King (1,100 pages, 441,000 words), but something like that is not something I want to commit to reading all that often. I will say that though I love to read, I am a slower reader, so that does factor in for me. I'd have to really want to read something that might take me 60 hours to read.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, 30k feels a bit long to me.

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of feel the same. It is my experience that fics that go over 300k words or so are rarely very satisfying past the first few chapters. Not that there aren't exceptions - I've read some extremely good longfics in my time - but a lot of the time those super long ones clearly weren’t planned out ahead of time, so they have little structure and tend to become overwrought.

[(Anonymous)]

I have no problem with people writing long fic. I just typically avoid fic over 100k words. This is mainly because I don't read fanfiction for loooong long form stories... but also because super long fic is often not well thought out in my experience, and tends to either drag out he original premise or destroy it somewhere along the way.