What’s your output rate?

[Blind_Justice]

56 submissions in ten years. When I'm in the zone, I can publish a 15,000 word chunk a month, but some major health issues have turned my plans into a stop-start affair. Struggling with depression is toxic for creativity.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

My latest story (Twins Getting Ready) published this morning. In the 8 years I’ve been posting stories here, I’ve published just 8 stories.

Most of my stories have gone online at one-year intervals, although there was a 4 year gap at one point with no production. I made up for that by publishing 3 stories in a 1 month timeframe last year. I don’t know what got into me.

My once-a-year output rate must be one of the slowest for any author.

How often do you publish? And what was your longest break between publishing stories?

This year.

First year of writing.

One five-part story.

Am working on a seven part story and I’m nearly halfway through.

The first one was easy as I was SO inspired. The new one is tougher but gets a bit easier every time I do a little more.

 

[Agiel]

Nowhere near as prolific as I want. And I take way too long between posting.

I’m a believer in quality over quantity, Millie, and you may not think your output is prolific but I do. In two years you’ve submitted a fair few stories and, although I haven’t read any, you do seem to be pleasing your readers.

We do write to please the reader but we also write, and quite rightly so, in order to please ourselves. If we don’t enjoy reading a story we’ve written we can hardly expect someone else to enjoy it.

I’ve never had the urge to churn out a story a week, or even a story a month, and I’m sure I never will.

 

[Duleigh]

How often do you publish? And what was your longest break between publishing stories?

Currently - every 3 to 4 weeks Longest break was 7/2008 to 12/2021

 

[Limnophile]

I started writing a year and a half ago. At one point I had 99 short stories of 1 to 10k words available on another site. Due to recent legal silliness in my area, I needed to take many of them down. I'd estimate 300,000 total words in 18 months, half of which are still online. I have slowed down significantly since I got COVID for the 2nd time in July.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Longest break was 7/2008 to 12/2021

That is how to do a break! Kudos.

 

[TadOverdon]

I've written about a quarter of a million words over the last five years.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

In around 3 months I did a five part 100,000 word story.

Currently my latest story is around 30,000-40,000 words at the mo, and will tap out at about 70, 80, maybe 100,000 words again but this time for 7 parts.

Not bad as it’s my first ever year of writing here.

 

[Seadog777]

I had quite a few posted earlier this year. 2022 has been a very very busy year for my DT, ERT and SRT. I'm just now back home full-time and able to get back to finishing up the stories that I had to leave unfinished and start some new ones.

 

[Pink5Frills]

I have only recently joined here, and I am contemplating to write a story.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I have been on here for a little over four and half years and have 161 submissions published. I'm not writing as much as I was at first, but I'm still trying to get a few stories out there.

 

[Imstillfun]

I’ve been posting since 2015. At first stories poured out of me. Now I’m lucky if I write 2 a year.

luckily I’m still read quite often and get 10-20 new followers a week.

 

[Seadog777]

I start writing and stop writing when the ancestors tell me to.

I publish when a story is finished, edited and proofread by my wife and neighbor.

 

[TxRad]

295 Stories and 2 poems in 18 years. 16.4 stories a year and that is not counting mainstream books.

 

[Duleigh]

2006 - 3 stories
2008 - 3 stories
2021 - 1 story
2022 - 31 stories and a poem
2023 - planning on 9 stories

 

[Rob_Royale]

Started in October this year and I've got 56k words in three posted stores and I'm about 12k words into story four so far.

 

[dmallord]

Hum ... you made me go to the stats again!

I started writing sometime in mid-2020 during the pandemic times. The isolationistic settings spurred it on. Finally, I got brave enough to post three stories on November 28 and 29th, 2020. They scored well. So I started writing more.

In total, I posted 51 stories and pulled down a few to combine some chapters as one post. Today, December 18, 2022, my published story number is 43 in Lit. I don't post anywhere else.

I pulled the data table, and it surprised me. The average days between stories show my output at about one story every 17 days - that's crazy. I have two long breaks in that period which are 89 days and 82 days between one story and the next. Other spaces in time are 1 to 5-day intervals between stories - it tells me I spent too much time in this chair.

My long breaks were hospital stays - looking at the dead time in writing. So, I got crazy while writing smut er erotic stories with a total average score of 4.46 and a low of 3.01 to 4.78.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Just over 5 years, 50 stories.
Three are 750 words, most are 3-4 pages.

They come in fits and starts - I'd written very little for months, then scrubbed up a draft for the Winter contest just before the deadline, was inspired by one image to produce a 10k story pretty much in a weekend, and extended a rant into a two-page story, all in 2 weeks.

I currently have about a dozen drafts, of which I hope a couple will blossom in time for Pink Orchid and April Fool events.

 

[Britva415]

In the 8 years I’ve been posting stories here, I’ve published just 8 stories.

I wrote and published 8 stories in my first 3 weeks.

My 9th story is taking longer.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

At the moment, my output rate is nonexistent. Between charity work, events at Temple, having a to prepair a festive 8 day Hanukkah schedule, there is no time to write.

 

[yowser]

This past year's OR:

6 stories in three contests/challenges (5 categories)

2621 words per month (published, maybe three times that in drafts?)
53.86 words per vote
.48 words per view (every time I write a word it gets read by two people? Mirabile dictu!)

 

[Pink5Frills]

34 stories in 14 months.

Although I took most of this year off, I'm back at it. I've got 4 more stories in the works that are currently delayed while I wrack my brain looking for endings. Ideally, I'd like to publish one story per month but I sometimes get too caught up in writing, and I find it hard to stop for fear of losing whatever I have that passes for inspiration.

If one here should write a story, then it will have to be in one go, as when one is in the mood, and then stop to take a break, that is when one may develop what we call, "Writer's Block."

 

[K.A. Ryde]

I used to be pretty prolific but I've slowed down a fair bit, now. A new story every few days has turned to a new story roughly every month. It's probably a good thing - I'm not 100% sure I want this to be the MAIN thing I do especially when I'm trying to get non-erotica writing, which I care about a lot more, off the ground.

 

[GrantBricksly]

Ok this is a very interesting conversation. First let me just say, HOLY CRAP! some of you write like gods.

Second, My output sucks. I joined back in 2014. Posted I 4 chapters of a story, all at the same time. They did..I'd say admirably for me. They all sit in the high 3.6-3.9 range And going back and reading them, that's better than they deserve. I was not a great writer back then..lol.

This year, I got the bug again, and started once more. First thing I did, was that I found I had a chapter 5 for that story, and just posted it (If Im being honest, I didn't even bother to read it, and make sure it was good. I saw it was finished, so I went for it. Just to kind of get my juices flowing again)

Then, I wrote 4 stories in a month. 2 for the Winter Contest. So that's a total of 9 since 2014. Not great.

That being said, since I finished my last submission for the winter contest, I began a new story, and have been averaging 2-3k words a day most days. I am over 35k so far, and I think I'll make it to 50-60k before it's finished. Making it the longest of any of my stories (even if you combine the chapter story) And I have plans for each of the special contests for the upcoming year as well. I am hoping to keep my 2-3k word a day going, and just keep writing. My hope is to do all 6 special contests this year, plus one more story a month as well. We'll see.

 

[Pink5Frills]

Ok this is a very interesting conversation. First let me just say, HOLY CRAP! some of you write like gods.

Second, My output sucks. I joined back in 2014. Posted I 4 chapters of a story, all at the same time. They did..I'd say admirably for me. They all sit in the high 3.6-3.9 range And going back and reading them, that's better than they deserve. I was not a great writer back then..lol.

This year, I got the bug again, and started once more. First thing I did, was that I found I had a chapter 5 for that story, and just posted it (If Im being honest, I didn't even bother to read it, and make sure it was good. I saw it was finished, so I went for it. Just to kind of get my juices flowing again)

Then, I wrote 4 stories in a month. 2 for the Winter Contest. So that's a total of 9 since 2014. Not great.

That being said, since I finished my last submission for the winter contest, I began a new story, and have been averaging 2-3k words a day most days. I am over 35k so far, and I think I'll make it to 50-60k before it's finished. Making it the longest of any of my stories (even if you combine the chapter story) And I have plans for each of the special contests for the upcoming year as well. I am hoping to keep my 2-3k word a day going, and just keep writing. My hope is to do all 6 special contests this year, plus one more story a month as well. We'll see.

We are good at something, but we are not all good at the same thing.