Your Fastest-Written Work

[lovecraft68]

Confessions: Three Minutes to Glory is around 7k and done in not much more than an hour. Simple, stroky but fun and not my usual longer winded style. It was a case of "Hey, this could be a fun idea" and let it rip/

 

[Actingup]

Oof. That was intense, and hit close to home in some ways. Thank you.

Do you find that publishing changed how you felt? I have a few traumatic pieces I've written and sealed away in their own little corners of my Google drive, and I wonder if actually putting them out would change anything. I can't imagine it was easy to hit publish on this work, but did that act...help, somehow?

It did help, yes. I'd had many years to process, so it wasn't the primary vehicle for closure, but it was still helpful, and I think based on the comments that some other readers found it helpful. My experience was that nobody knew what to say, at the time or afterwards (even for many, many years), but they had things that they wanted to express (even for many, many years), so I imagined the (fictional) letter-writer just sitting down and saying it an email. The workmates, the family, the fiancee were based on real people.

Even just recently, I met somebody who I hadn't seen since much it happened, and she really, really wanted to talk about it to help with her own closure. So, yeah. If we can't deal with grief through anonymous story-telling with each other, when can we deal with it?

 

[Erozetta]

Most of mine took less than a day to write.

The only ones that took longer than that are Perfectly Playful, Delectable Delights, Careless Whispers, LCB ch 5, and One More Night.

Of the rest, the fastest was probably Principles of Pain. It was about 3 hours of writing and editing. Then about another hour editing further. I submitted the edit and the only part that ever went up was the title change, which is frustrating. I submitted the change with a title change, category change (BDSM felt more appropriate on reflection.) different tags, added 1,500 words and fixed some typos. But the only thing that actually changed was the title, so yeah, frustrating. The edited version is on Theo.


My longest work that took the shortest time is my second novel. It was about 78k words and was written in about two weeks while waiting on my husband to read the first. I also edited the first in those two weeks.

 

[Voboy]

This one.

I have no clue where it came from, but it came to me in the shower one morning and I hit "SUBMIT" that very same day before I went to bed. So... fourteen hours from conception to completion, maybe? I've always liked it. Less than 10k words, so it's on the leaner side for me.