Daily Check-In Post: May 19, 2011

[jagnikjen]

This is your daily check-in post!

Tell us how your day has gone, writing wise:

Awesome!
Pretty good.
On schedule.
Okay.
Like crap.
I took the day off.

Discussion questions:

How many words was the longest fan fic you ever wrote?

How long did it take you to write?

When you choose fan fic to read, is the length (if known) a factor?

Comments

[glitteryv]

Today I feel like (writing wise) I'm back on schedule. 810 new words.

The longest fic I've written is 26k words and some change. I wrote it in about a month and a half. The editing period took much longer (about 3 months) because it was a crossover (due South/Slings & Arrows) that involved Shakespearean tidbits mixed in with a casefic. It's one of the favourite stories I've written.

In truth, I've always liked looooooong, i.e. epic length, fics. I got a taste for them circa Xena "alt" fics (that is, AUs in the modern parlance) since the bulk of the writing for that fandom consisted of novel-length stories. I've been lucky enough that the fandoms I have been involved in or presently am a part of tend to have Big Bangs as well as fellow long fic writers. :)

Once I got a nook (ebook ereader), my taste for long fic has only solidified. Most of what I read on my computer is between <1k and 8k words. Anything over that I tend to dl into my nook. The only downside of not reading it all in my laptop is that I have to remember to leave feedback/kudos/snaps to the authors.

[jagnikjen]

YAY for being back on schedule and kudos for those 810 words.