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.

 

[SkyBubble]

My most current story took me just a couple of hours on each of two afternoons. Maybe a day and a half in total elapsed time.

 

[XerXesXu]

A 750-word story. I had a 200-word story which I padded out to 750. I even added in 'Chapter 1' to 'Chapter 4' headings, like those who write a 3000-word story and split it into 4 x 750-word stories do, but I had those words in the body, not the title.

Sonya's Plan

Maybe took hours, can't recall.

PS: I've re-read it. Maybe I should have waited an additional hour before submitting; I've spotted a couple of embarrassing infelicities.
It was the 26th Feb and on Lit all the talk was of growing waiting times for approval.
Obviously, a rush job.

 

[RejectReality]

https://literotica.com/s/ride-no-more came together in a few hours from what I recall. While my first readers were having a look at it, I came up with a better couple of lines for the final wrap, but otherwise it's as it was. Thought I'd talked more about it here, but that must have been emails or PMs, because I can't find it on the forum. Pretty sure I nailed down exactly how long it was, but damn me if I can find it.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Denying Alex was done in a couple hours, but it's only 750 words. And it shows. It's not bad but could be clearer and improved.

Undergraduate Experiments: Drunk and UE Sober were done in about a day and a half, then improved by a beta reader and then posted. Writing a drunk character was a lot of fun and flowed oddly easily.

Actually my review of crap sex toys was even quicker, but I did do that in chunks after each bit of testing.

 

[NotWise]

Pixie by the Pool. I conceived of the story as a way to break a writing drought. I wrote it one day, finished and edited it another day, and submitted it on the third day. It worked so smoothly that I wrote a whole series of "Pixie" stories based on the same formula. Some of them went as quickly. Some of them didn't.

 

[HelenL]

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?

Time Out started by a song running around in my head for several hours so that probably needs to be included in the process, but then it was like an obsession to get it down, a few hours writing and posted the next day. Never happened before and likely never will again.

It's close to my lowest rated story, but it's exactly what I wanted to write and I have no regrets.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

I'm torn between a few here. The Plow is my longest piece, but I got into a zone while writing it and pushed it out relatively quickly.

Sphinx and Mouse Ch. 02 only took about a week to publish after the first installment was posted. The inspiration was unexpected too--I hadn't planned to write a sequel in the first place.

 

[THBGato]

This was done in less than an hour, minor tweaks aside: A Guardian Blind Date Transcript. But it is only 750 words.

Otherwise, I still can't believe that I wrote Eve & Lucy as quickly as I did and for it to come out well (all five parts are currently 4.8+ and that's after the top list troll has been at them). It's 87,000 words and I wrote and published the whole thing in under 6 weeks.

 

[PennyThompson]

I'm not a particularly fast writer, but my fastest non-750-word story is definitely Full Moon Blues.

After catching some inspiration from one of @Brandnewbuddy 's Story Ideas posts, I had pretty much the whole thing written in one evening. From start to beta-reading to submission to publishing was less than 48 hours.

I think that immediacy and urgency worked really well, it was all about emotion and longing. The storyline (such as it was) basically dumped itself into my brain fully formed!

 

[norafares]

I wrote my Novel November book, an almost exactly 100k word novel, in 13 days. That was my fastest, I think.

 

[Phantom300]

In 2021, I saw there was going to be an April Fool's Contest. Boner Check [T/I] went from a fleeting thought to a submitted story in about 24 hours. I didn't do much in the way of revising or self-editing, and it shows. It's my lowest-rated story, and deservedly so.

I've thought a few times of re-working and re-submitting it, but I doubt I ever do.

 

[ADirtyPerv]

In 2021, I saw there was going to be an April Fool's Contest. Boner Check [T/I] went from a fleeting thought to a submitted story in about 24 hours. I didn't do much in the way of revising or self-editing, and it shows. It's my lowest-rated story, and deservedly so.

I've thought a few times of re-working and re-submitting it, but I doubt I ever do.

4.46 is pretty great for a lowest score. My lowest is 3.09 if you count my foray into LW.

 

[WaxPhilosophic]

I think my fastest was Friday Night in the E.R. I was on some medication that had me pretty wired. So instead of sleep, I wrote. Can't remember when I got back from the pharmacy, but I stayed up deep into the night, whacked out on steroid medication. Words just sort of flowed. Not a super long tale, only 4k words, but I cranked it out in a handful of hours.

 

[Phantom300]

4.46 is pretty great for a lowest score. My lowest is 3.09 if you count my foray into LW.

I have been fortunate to have gotten some great response to my writing.

I think I'm only average at this, and I know now that T/I and EC are pretty easy to please fan bases, so the scores are a little skewed in my favor.

I'd never try to plow the minefield I hear LW is, so points to you for bravery.