[ SECRET POST #2655 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2655 ⌋

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

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[Divergent]


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04. [WARNING for underage character+sex?]



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[Archer]


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[Hannibal]


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[Wolverine and the X-Men]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That ... makes about 3000 words a day, every day.

In all honesty, anon, going by your statistics alone, your fic is probably not all that good. Even if writing is all you do every day, that barely leaves time for plotting and editing. And the first two drafts of everything are shit.

So, be honest, anon. Was your fic as good as it could have been?

[(Anonymous)]

I guess you're trying to be helpful?

[(Anonymous)]

3000 words a day is...really not all that much. When I'm feeling especially inspired, I can write 3000 words in about an hour and a half.

Also, who the fuck puts fanfiction through three drafts? What the fuck are you doing with your life? If you're putting that much effort into it, then it damn well better be something original that you're planning to shop around to publishers.

[(Anonymous)]

right?? LOL most fic is lucky to even be proofread a single time. If you're doing three drafts of a fanfic you need to find some more hobbies.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol what? Writing 130,000 words in 2 months is totes normal, but editing would be stretching it?

If an author expects me to read a 20,000+ fic, I expect them to have edited it properly. If OP thinks that's unreasonable, OP had a good sporking coming.

[(Anonymous)]

... You're kidding, right? I proofread and edit as I go along.

[(Anonymous)]

Wrong. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing properly.

[blueonblue]

Sometimes I put fanfics through three drafts. First draft is handwritten, second is typed, and then I print and rewrite before posting. Original or fanfic, real name or username, it doesn't matter.

What am I doing with my life? Getting published.

[(Anonymous)]

3000 words in a day is not that much. 3000 words in a day every day for weeks is a fuck ton. People need days off, days to recalibrate, days to edit (at least once), days to write less, days to do non-writing things, etc.

[sarillia]

I can write 3000 words in less than an hour. If I'm really taking my time then it takes two hours. That leaves plenty of time for plotting and editing. Since I'm hardly a special snowflake I'm sure there are lots of others like me.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, now you've made me curious. Off to read your fic and see if it's any good.

[(Anonymous)]

uuuuh some people are really fast writers?

[(Anonymous)]

Are they good writers though?

[(Anonymous)]

uuuuuh, the OP is claiming to have written 130,000+ words in 2 months.

you need to write about 1650 words a day to complete a 50,000 word novel in one month for NaNo.

and NaNo novels are utter shit. I'm as familiar with Sturgeon's Law as anybody else, but if 99 percent of everything is shit, the percentage of NaNo novels that are shit increases by an order of magnitude to 99.9. The object of NaNo is to finish a draft, with the understanding that it will take at least one revision to make it remotely presentable.

OP is claiming to have written approximately 2166 words a day for two months. It probably shows.

[(Anonymous)]

I worked it out as at least over 2,100 words a day. If they wrote 7 days a week, no breaks ever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that fic was betaed, or even edited very much.

If a fic-rip happened to me, on some unedited, unbetaed fanfic I did (ie the fic rip might well have been justified) and I suddenly flipped my shit and deleted everything when previously I'd been writing thousands of happy fanfic words every day, I'd get off the internet and re-examine my life. For several months at the minimum.

I'm not being nasty, I'm trying to be helpful. To put so much into writing so many words of fanfic is almost obsessional behaviour to start with. To achieve that kind of focus means there's some kind of disconnect with the rest of reality going on, no matter if it's admirable or not.

A step back from fanfic and the internet might just be what the doctor ordered for the OP.

[(Anonymous)]

I completely agree with you, primarily because I've been in OP's shoes. The long fics that I wrote back before I got a beta and slowed myself down were praised a lot, and were also shit. Taking more time and getting a second look helps a lot, even if hearing that stings at first.

[sarillia]

It's always really interesting to me to find out how much writing is considered somehow absurd to other people. You write that first line and I feel like it comes with a silent "and that's a lot" but it doesn't sound like that much to me.

[(Anonymous)]

It's good to know that, because you personally have trouble writing that much, that anyone who is able to is a) obsessed and b) doesn't edit their work.

[(Anonymous)]

2100 is peanuts if you're inspired and in your groove. If I know where my fic is going and I have the inspiration, I could do that in an hour, maybe 2; I could go back and edit later in probably 15 minutes. It's fic, it's not a fucking dissertation. Having said that, even if I didn't spend hours and hours on it, it would still hurt to have it trashed. I made hamburgers for dinner tonight; it's probably the easiest thing I ever make for dinner and it takes the least amount of time, but if someone had spit it out and said it was the worst thing they'd ever eaten I would have been upset, even if they didn't say it to my face.

[(Anonymous)]

So much agreement right here.

[maverickz3r0]

One of the best fics I've ever read amounted to around 3 mil words. It was actually seven or eight fics, written over about a year and a half at a chapter or so a day. (HP fandom. Probably someone knows the fics I mean, it was pretty big.)

Some people CAN write good that fast.

[(Anonymous)]

Link? Because I won't believe that unless I see it.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

[(Anonymous)]

...thank you.

Thank you so much for posting this. I think this is going to be a huge breakthrough for me (I've promised someone very important to me that I would finish a novel before September, and I was starting to think that I wasn't going to be able to do it), and I am so, so grateful.