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

[linaewen]

I took the day off today (yesterday, too, come to think of it). I kept writing in mind, however, and wrote down on my calendar those fics that have due dates -- and I was encouraged to realize I have some time yet. If am careful not to take too many days off, that is. ;-)

My longest fic ever written is 112,355 words -- at the moment. That comes to some 46 chapters as I break them up. It's one I'm still working on, and I'm probably only halfway done, if that. One of my May goals is to get Chapter 47 written, which has been sitting in draft form for almost a year. :-/

I started it sometime around July 2003. Definitely an epic! I worked on it pretty steadily until about 3 years ago, when life changed rather drastically and I couldn't really seem to write much for some time. I feel like I'm beginning to get back into it properly again now, though. Yay!

Length is not a factor for me when reading fan fic. I am careful to look and see if it is completed or ongoing before I commit myself wholeheartedly, though. It's disappointing to be following a great work and have it stall or never be finished!

Oops, just heard an ominous echo when I wrote that, hehe! I think I should be practicing what I preach there with my slower-than-molasses-in-January progress on my epic...

[linaewen]

Make that word count for my long fic more like 120K -- I forgot about some chapters that haven't been posted yet, and one of them was really longwinded... ;-)