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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

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

I don't have much (if any at times) planned out/plotted. Although recently I have played more scenes/stories out in my head than I've ever done before and somewhat surprisingly the scenes end up longer on 'paper' than in my head - which is irksome when you are trying to hit a set number.

Insane sums it up well *g* I had an aim and I got there. I'm still not quite sure how I did it, to be honest.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume copious amounts of chocolate :)

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, amazingly enough not; which was very silly.