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donutsweeper) wrote2012-10-01 10:41 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2012-10-01 10:41 pm
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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.
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.
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How do people consistently write good drabbles (or 221b ficlets for that matter)?
Horses for courses I suppose. I know I struggle terribly every time I put my mind to crafting a drabble (I think I've managed maybe 14 since 2007). My characters always want to get chatty!
Admittedly my long fics aren't anywhere in the region of 100k and of the 10 that are over 13k, 5 of them were written over 10 years ago so I'm not exactly the wordiest writer around. It seems I'm happiest at around the 1-5k mark going by the number I've written that fall into that range. All those fics add up if you write in the same series though... my word count for my HL/TW verse is 145,498 which kind of surprises me (though it shouldn't in one way, as my longest ever fic of 50k+ was in that series).
I like bite sized chunks of fic that I can read while having breakfast and that don't make me late for work if I feel I have to finish them! Sometimes I wish I was better at writing them myself, but each to their own.
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Wow 145k for the HL/TW verse? That's amazing!!!