What was your fastest story?

[SimonDoom]

What is the shortest period of time it took you to write a story, from the moment of conceiving of it until submitting it for publication?

Not counting 750-word stories, mine is 25 hours, for my latest and perhaps most ridiculous story, Mom, You're A Hucow! https://www.literotica.com/s/mom-youre-a-hucow

I've had a couple other stories that I wrote in just over one day, but I think this was my fastest.

I think it's a useful challenge because it forces you to write. There's something liberating about giving yourself a deadline and not letting yourself noodle over the story unnecessarily. I wouldn't want to write every story this way, but I found it very satisfying to write fast and not think about it too much.

It's not a long story. A little over 5700 words.

 

[MelissaBaby]

The Dancing Ghost of Webster's Gore


Written in a hurry for last year's Halloween contest, if I recall correctly, in three days, maybe four. I had another story planned but it just didn't work. I kept the basic premise of a famous horror writer having a real supernatural encounter and started from scratch with a completely different story. It did okay, got a 4.76 score.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Dancing Ghost of Webster's Gore


. It did okay, got a 4.76 score.

Your standard for "OK" is quite high! That's excellent.

 

[jaF0]

My stuff is 3-4K, so a few hours at most.

 

[PeytonMirabelle]

The first story I posted, Red Roses, took less than 24 hours to write the first draft (13K words or so). Ironically, it has been my highest scoring story to date, so maybe I am really overthinking the stories since then.

 

[NotWise]

My first two stories were short and they went quickly. I don't remember exactly how long, but maybe a couple days each. Then I discovered editorial standards.

My first Pixie story is longer. It was conceived one day, largely written the next, and then I gave it a few days of rest and editing.

 

[oggbashan]

Out of 400+ I don't remember but I think it was less than 8 hours.

My 2003 NANoriMo challenge - posted as 12 chapters of Flawed Red Silk, was 50,000 words, written, edited and posted within the NaNoWriMo month allowing for the then delays in posting...

 

[Soshameless11]

I dashed off "Christmas Madness" in about an hour at the request of something quick and dirty from a friend. And it shows lol

 

[TxRad]

Way back when, they had a "How to" story contest. At the time I was staying in a Motel in the middle of nowhere for a job. The motel sat across the street from a small town Walmart. I didn't have a story for the contest.

I woke up at 3AM for a bathroom run and sat down at the front window of my room. From concept to posted for Lit in a little over three hours.

How to Pick Up Chicks in 14 Departments

 

[LexxRuthless]

Just the Tip

This story took me 3 hours to write. I did it as a writing exercise while I was watching the early returns on another story I'd posted, Daddy's New Girlfriend. I shared the story with a couple of other folks through e-mail, including my regular editor at the time. They all urged me to post it, so I did. It kind of grates on my nerves that this little one-off is now my fourth most-viewed and most-favorited story, far outstripping stories I spent months writing.

 

[SimonDoom]

Just the Tip

This story took me 3 hours to write. I did it as a writing exercise while I was watching the early returns on another story I'd posted, Daddy's New Girlfriend. I shared the story with a couple of other folks through e-mail, including my regular editor at the time. They all urged me to post it, so I did. It kind of grates on my nerves that this little one-off is now my third most-viewed story, far outstripping stories I spent months writing.

That's a great story. Amazing it took so little time to write. The creative process is like that, though.

 

[Blind_Justice]

"Express Delivery". 104k words in less than two weeks, editing included. The thing wrote itself.

...it just took a few extra all-nighters to get it ready in time for Geek Pride Day 2020...

 

[Deleted member 5521640]

The thing wrote itself.

That's the same for my story "The Burglar and the Nude Woman." It took me about a week to write. The bulk of the story up to the sex scene took me about three days, as it practically wrote itself. The sex took much longer as I still struggle with that, even though it's just a small portion of the story. Once I figure out how to get the sex to write itself, then I'll be all set

 

[HeyAll]

Bus Ride with Sister

It's 6 thousand words. I think it took 1 or 2 days to write/edit the whole thing and submit. It's one of my top 10 biggest stories.

https://www.literotica.com/s/bus-ride-with-sister

It's one of those fun, one-scene stories with an exaggerated plot. Those are always fun to write and readers love those.

They're fairly easy to write once you have the plot/premise down. But I've made a lot of those and these days it's more fun to write stories where it's hard to find the plot. So it takes me weeks now to make one story, roughly.

 

[Agiel]

4 hours + 11 days

Poison Ivy is 22k+ words. It took 4 hours to write, edit and submit. It took 2 rejections, plus a pm to Laurel to convince her it wasn’t a snuff story, and 11 days after initial submission it was published.

 

[Winter_Fare]

I was half asleep and this idea came in a weird dream. I wrote it out in about an hour and half and was so excited to publish it because I don't usually get on with short stories. It needed a re edit to desnuff it (of course that's not a word.
It did better than some stuff I worked on for months of course

https://www.literotica.com/s/eulogy-for-an-eco-funeral

 

[MelissaBaby]

Your standard for "OK" is quite high! That's excellent.

Well, it didn't win.

 

[_Lynn_]

Maggie's Gift. I wrote it in about six hours and entered it into the Winter Holiday Contest. That was in 2009.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I took eight hours, or so, start to finish once. Only 2500 words though.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I think my Songs of Seduction - Water was my fastest story, about twelve hours total time writing and editing (about 8k words). It came out of nowhere, one Christmas day on an Oz beach, and is possibly the best thing I've written. Written across three or four days if I remember rightly.

 

[litfan10]

I've done a lot of flash fiction and for twenty years I was a journalist known for meeting tight deadlines with very clean copy(editor calls with a job, I ask how much time, he says now kinda thing.) I needed the money so got used to it.

That being said, on Lit many years ago we had this obnoxious jerk (I'm being nice with that description) who acted like he ran the place especially the contests and would set these bizarre rules (no characters named Paula for example.) The problem was newbies were very confused and often believed him.

We were on the last day of posting for the Nude Day contest and his royal highass went on a rant that no one can enter more than one story for a contest, two and you were banned from the contest, three and you were banned from Lit.

Txrad and Michchick did a great job policing him while I loved poking the beast. I loved watching him froth at the mouth. I just hated the confusion and anger he generated.

Anyways, I had posted two stories in that particular contest and was proudly on his banned from the contest list. It was eleven at night, entries had one hour left to be submitted and I got it in my head to enter a third story just to piss off the idiot.

Cracked my knuckles, rolled up my sleeves and got a crazy idea and just started typing like mad. 1600 words later, I submitted my third entry at 11:34. I believe I set a fastest typing record for myself.

Honestly, it is one of my all time favorite stories that I've ever written. It is also my lowest rated story here on Lit. Oh, well.

https://www.literotica.com/s/once-upon-a-national-nude-day-1

I did not win Ogg's worst contest story prize for it but did watch the idiot go flying off the rails.I

Worth it!

 

[gordo12]

Other than the 750 stories.

Demon Blood, the first story I ever wrote for Lit. 23000 words in about 6 days for the Geek event. I didn't know all that much about writing and it shows. Still, the readers liked it. It flowed like a tap.

I must be getting better 'cause now they flow like mud!

 

[RejectReality]

The two that just went live today went from first word to published ( elsewhere, where I have priority in the queue due to membership status ) in less than 24 hours. When something in the 1k-2.5k range really grabs me, I tend to do that.

That doesn't count musing time, though. Most of my stuff has time to percolate out the basic plot before I ever lay down the first word.

Inexcusable and Ride No More ( as Les ) both happened in a handful of hours. Ride No More did get an edit to the ending after I let it sit for a couple of days and thought of something more poetic. Those are both short, though. Sub 1k words, I believe.

I used to be able to dash of 3-5k word RR stories like that, but I just don't get enough sleep nowadays. I close my eyes to visualize, half nod off, and lose everything I'd just come up with. It's been too long to remember which stories went that way.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Now, none. In the days of yore and yesteryear, a couple that only took me two days or three. It was a long time ago so can't remember which.

As for 750 word attempts, less than a day. Of course as I'm long winded just getting story down close to 750 took most of the day. It finally came out at 754 words.

 

[Gamblnluck]

I wrote a story called "Batteries not included" I started with the punch line and wrote the story to match.

It took me a day to write and then I sat and read it over the next day before publishing.

I liked it. It was a down and dirty, no frills, no big explanation like they seem to want in Loving Wives. A simple story of a guy with ED due to a medical condition confronting a cheating wife. She downplayed his angst and though her cheating fair.