Your Fastest-Written Work

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Inspired by this comment by @ElectricBlue . What is your fastest, most slipped-into-a-writing-trance story? Where you start writing, and the itch seizes you, and you look back hours later and ask, "What have I wrought?" Only to reply to yourself, after a reread, "Huh, I done wrought some pretty good shit."

It doesn't have to be long, just fast. And, if you care about such things, how did it do? After your intense work was done, was it loved?
 
For me it was The Biggest of Dicks. The FMC's voice came through bright and clear for two days or so, and I finished most of it in that timespan, while juggling work. I still like that story a lot. It started at ~4.63 and climbed slowly to 4.77. It's my only real climber, the rest have been largely static.
 
Published would've been No Heroes In Love for Valentine's. Working on a deadline is good for me, but if my laptop didn't break, I would've finished before the deadline instead of editing from scratch again!

As for how did it do... Nah, man, I don't care about metrics. Even if it was a contest, I already won my paycheck because I immersed myself as if it was the 1930s, and either I write that, or I won't be eating for two weeks. If you ask me, I collected my paycheck and Laurel's soiled panties this morning, and a slip saying "you better don't take another hiatus this time, you coward." Helps to be delusional if it keeps me publishing, which it is. I plan to edit four 750-word entries next week.

Unpublished would've been my first novel 11 years ago, which took me two weeks.

Anything that's between 750 to 1K long takes me between half an hour and an hour and a half. Longer than 1K takes me hours or days, depending on the word count.
 
I'm going to answer with two different stories because they are very different. The fastest story from opening the empty file to pushing submit was my one T/I story, Santa's Lap. I wanted too see if the category really was just free views and followers. I spent 4 hours on it, total. Actually, I spent several days arguing with myself to submit it or not, but that was because I felt kind of gross writing the story. And yes, four hours got me 100K views and something like 60 new followers. It's one of my lower rated stories (4.57), but the big complaint was that they only had sex once on camera. If I'd taken something for an upset stomach, I expect I could have been in the 4.7's with it. It did kind of confirm my suspicions for the category.

My fastest output per word was probably The Important Days, which I had considered my best story until two weeks ago. I had been working on a really dumb idea for the nude day contest (my first contest) and decided I hated it. I woke up with another idea in the morning. I wrote a polished draft in about 2.5 days and spent more time editing it than any other story I had written to date, because I knew it was the best thing I had written. I got more feedback from my wife on it than I had on any story before or since. It took a short 5 days from waking up with the concept to pushing submit. It go a W in the contest.

EDIT: I forgot to say it's 28K words.
 
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I guess I'm the slowpoke, here.

My latest, Figure Study with My Sister (currently at 4.58), started life as a relatively small background/infodump scene from a different WIP that took on a life of it's own. Once I hit about 6K words on that part, alone, I spalled it off into it's own story.

Took me just-shy of three months and hit ~49K words.

<sarc>I'm such the slacker </sarc>

:LOL:
 
For non-750s, for me it has to be The Waif and the Wall - first draft in about one hour, then a few more hours tinkering and it was done.

For 750s, Shouldn't Be was written in 30 minutes. It remains my most popular one.

Funny thing with both of those: I have absolutely no idea where the ideas for either of them came from.
 
I think mine would be County Fair, my entry into the Summer Lovin' contest last year. It was much shorter than my usual at 9.2k. I was under a deadline because I had decided towards the end of the entry window to get one entered. One of the reasons it went so quickly is that it's probably got more autobiographical material than any other of my stories. I didn't have to do any research because I had lived in the time frame of the story, and I was able to recall many fond memories as I wrote it.
 
I haven't finished anything non-750 in a single setting, but Coworkers with Benefits came pretty close to that. 9k words written and edited over 2 or 3 days, then submitted as my second entry for On The Job event last year while I waited for @PennyThompson to beta-read my first one.
 
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