shayvaalski replied to your post: shayvaalski replied to your post: Sunday Six37K..
It has taken me TWO YEARS to write a 50k original piece
how do u do this
I actually don’t really understand how anyone not does this. I mean, I know I’m a bit unusual when it comes to writing speed, but for me when I start writing it just... flows out? I go all hyperfocused and the story just comes, and if it doesn’t I might as well give up because I can’t force it out. Like, if you give me a whole day and a new thing to write I can churn out 5K raw content without that much trouble, I reckon. Of course, it’s first draft stuff so there’s still masses of editing to do, but it’s so much easier to edit and add to something that’s already there than to start from scratch.
Not gonna lie, I get kinda smug about my monster-writing. Otoh, whenever I get too smug all I gotta do is remember @saxifraga-x-urbium, who writes like 100K in two weeks and fucking publishes it, so.
(And that finishing-thing is a big part of it. I may be able to write a lot in one go but it takes ages before I’ve got it all edited out to postable content.)