One thing I love/hate ablut my own writing is that when I enjoy a scene, I can sink into it and the internal emotions and actions and drag it into 10k words - which is the kind of sinking into and enjoying a scene I WANT when I'm reading something I really love. I want the enjoyment to last forever, to feel what they feel, to feel like I'm watching a movie scene with the internal perspective too. That may be why anyone ever read my Star Trek AOS fics. They were INTENSELY in that style.
However. It takes 6-10 hours to write 10k chapters, or 10k oneshots. If I can focus and lock in. Days or weeks if ever, if I can't. I loathe how long it takes to write the scenes how I like them best. So I work on shortening my writing style. Often. ;-; because I do TRY to get 10k words to become 3k. I am trying ToT
But if I do manage to write the longer more in depth scene I wanted, I'm gonna enjoy it lol.
Anyway the wildest part of all this is pre college, I DID write short and succinct. Like less than 1k words to tell a 5 scene story. Wow! What happened to that version of me?
College was so stressful, I think I just really fell in love with stories you could sink into and get lost in enjoying for days to weeks, and then started writing more like the fics I loved. Because in college? Oh I'd read mostly fanfics 100k-500k and like read 1 a day or 1-3 a week if they were on the longer end. I was just devouring long form fics.
I loved Observations by janon. The definition of slow burn, intensely slow burn. I love Manual Transmission now, because it's above 1 million words and ALL scenes I can sink into and feel will last a while to enjoy ToT. I keep finding long ass fic, which I prefer, then taking ages to read them because I'm NOT in college anymore and cant read like I used to.
