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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-04-10 07:16 pm

[ SECRET POST #2655 ]


⌈ 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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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
A tiny handful of people can write that fast and write well. The odds that OP is one of them are vanishingly small. Especially since such people are generally professionals with egos as tough as boots.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
How do you know? Has there been a study?

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Most of us have been writing and observing writers long enough to generalize.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I've been writing and observing for a while, myself. And my observation is that there is wide variation (ooh, that rhymes. How pleasant).

Most days, I can't write the 2600 words that people have said is necessary to match OP's pace. But there are some days where I hit a stride, and I knock out a good 6k. I don't know how, and I don't know why. I just know that it happens. And I know that I'm not alone. Shit, there was a woman in my first fandom who would churn out 50k fics like it weren't no thing, and they were damn good. They were some of the best in the entire fandom.

I think the mistake that people are making is that they're assuming that a word count can be evenly divided, when it really can't be. You can front-load or back-load that shit. You can spend ten spectacularly productive days writing and the rest editing. That's how some people do. Without more information, we can't assume that OP isn't that way.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
True, some people are exceptional. The rest of us are simply choosing not to proceed from the assumption that the OP must be one of them.

(Anonymous) 2014-04-11 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
I...think you might have missed the point of my comment (particularly since I am definitely not exceptional. Yet according to you, I am!).

What OP supposedly did is only exceptional if you think that a story's word count can be evenly divided by the number of days it took to write it. But that is rarely, if ever, the case.