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How long it takes others to finish a story of 3-5 Lit. pages?
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That depends...if I'm really into the story and the characters are tell me what they want to do and say...4 or 5 days. If the characters are silent and I have to drag it out of them two weeks. If they are really stubborn, well let's just say I have a file folder full of those stories as they never do get finished. Every once in awhile I go back and look at them to see if the characters will talk to me. 
The three novel length (70,000 words or more) works have each taken about a year to have in a condition to submit to my editor.
The three novel length (70,000 words or more) works have each taken about a year to have in a condition to submit to my editor.
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That's a pretty long story. I have some in progress that are much shorter than that and have been on my HD for as much as five years.
I have also banged out some in little more than a week.
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When I'm in the zone and the characters are really talking to me, I can finish 3 pages in as many days ( raw draft )
Most of the time, when I'm a notch down and just 'on a roll', it will take 2-3 days per Lit page.
When I hit yet another trough where I don't feel like doing anything, it can take months.
I've cranked out Lit page and a half tales in one evening several times for my third pen name.
Most of the time, when I'm a notch down and just 'on a roll', it will take 2-3 days per Lit page.
When I hit yet another trough where I don't feel like doing anything, it can take months.
I've cranked out Lit page and a half tales in one evening several times for my third pen name.
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Thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one.I thought the very same thing.
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I thought the very same thing.
Me too.
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I thought about saying it depended on how fast a person could read. Or how many times the person had to stop and masturbate.
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I'm a speedy reader, but a slow writer. I've hammered out 3-4k words in an afternoon if I'm on a roll...I don't think I've ever written that many Lit pages, in fact I'm sure I haven't. I like short stories...I don't have the patience for a novel.
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Writing. Not really curious about how long it takes the good folks of Lit to rub one out ;op
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I thought only I procrastinated that badly ;op
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
I have some in progress that are much shorter than that and have been on my HD for as much as five years.
It's not entirely procrastinating, although there is a lot of that. Sometimes I start on a story and lose interest and start something else. I have about thirty stories or chapters in progress at any one time.
Originally Posted by Boxlicker101
I have some in progress that are much shorter than that and have been on my HD for as much as five years.
It's not entirely procrastinating, although there is a lot of that.
Sometimes I start on a story and lose interest and start something else. I have about thirty stories or chapters in progress at any one time. 
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The time ranges from a maximum of infinity (or never), because the story doesn't get finished even though it is more than 5 Lit pages already, to a minimum of a 24 hour day if the Muses are cooperative, as they were with my NaNoWriMo 12 chaptered story "Flawed Red Silk".
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