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[donutsweeper]

How do people write long fics?

Seriously, it is a skill I have never mastered and barely been able to comprehend. I love reading long fics (within reason), but writing them? I can't do it.

Recently the newest part of an AU series I like was posted. It was 110k words long, bringing the series (of 10 stories so far) up to 600k or so. 600,000 words. And, according to the author, the next part might be double the length of the last one.

Yes, the recent part could have been edited a lot and yes, it used some techniques that result in longer stories (multiple POVs that sometimes retell the same scene from different perspectives) but still... even if it had been cut to half that length, how the heck do people write stories that long?

I really, really wish that was something I could do.

Comments

[qafkinnetic.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel. The only time I've managed to write longer fics is with a partner. My longest fics without a partner get up to about 7-10,000 words, but that's it.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I never tried co-writing, but I can see how it would result in a longer word count. I still consider 7k long though. I haven't gotten that high too often.

[qafkinnetic.livejournal.com]

I did it for the tw_collab_fest. Our story got up to over 43,000 words and we had to rush to finish by the deadline. If we'd had more time, we probably would've gotten even more words in. But yeah, usually I'm excited if I manage to write anything over 3k.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh wow, 43k, that's amazing!