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Hello, ficcers! Zuko
terajk here. How goes the fic?:
Did you:
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Image description: Top caption: "Need a 500-word fill for Kink Bingo" (fanfic flamingo) Bottom caption: "5,000 words later, still not done."

Image description: Top caption: "Word count of epic fic you've been working on all day" (fanfic flamingo) "Bottom caption: 522 words."
Does your fic grow exponentially? Is every word like pulling teeth? Some combination of the both?
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Did you:
- Write
- Edit
- Send to beta
- Plan/research
- Procrastinate
- Something else I will explain in comments.
For discussion:

Image description: Top caption: "Need a 500-word fill for Kink Bingo" (fanfic flamingo) Bottom caption: "5,000 words later, still not done."

Image description: Top caption: "Word count of epic fic you've been working on all day" (fanfic flamingo) "Bottom caption: 522 words."
Does your fic grow exponentially? Is every word like pulling teeth? Some combination of the both?
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Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 00:17 (UTC)My fics do tend to grow, especially when I'm trying to write a drabble.
I experience both phenomena at various times.
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Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 03:27 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 12:08 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:44 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 01:26 (UTC)These flamingos know me well. ;-) It's one or the other with me! Usually, it's like pulling teeth to get started, but once I get going, it flows and grows at a nice rate.
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:40 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 06:45 (UTC)My fics start out at a brisk pace -- I can churn out loads of words for the beginnings of stories. It's after that things get tricky sometimes. ^^;;
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:41 (UTC)Anyhoo, I hope you can get that story all spiffied out.
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Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 06:53 (UTC)Right now writing my wip's like pulling teeth. But it's always the case when I'm editing my wip.
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 08:20 (UTC)It's a combination of both, depending on how inspired I am with the fic. Sometimes I can churn out several thousand words, no problem. Other times, I get stuck and it's a struggle to get a few hundred words. But yeah, depends on the fic. Some want to be written far easier than others.
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:42 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 17:02 (UTC)(Although the DS9 novzat - 'scuse me, novelization - that's slowly turning from a quick-written and blathery first draft into a much shorter second draft seems pretty familiar. *g* OTOH, the 1500 words of inexplicable stuff I never would have expected to write? Highly puzzling.)
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, June 27th, 2011 17:13 (UTC)Oh man, the fanfic flamingo is so right, LOL. There were many fics that were meant to be short that turned long and fics that I know will require a few scenes but I wasn't able to get much written. I think it depends on the fic and if I feel I can write that scene well or if I'm very anxious about it.
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Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:44 (UTC)no subject
Date: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 00:39 (UTC)Wrote about 300 words for the other one.
Does your fic grow exponentially? Is every word like pulling teeth? Some combination of the both?
Usually, my fic grows at a steady pace. I think this is because, most of the time, I have something of a general idea of what the story will be like.
Well, that is, unless I'm writing something for an auction winner in which case it takes me eons to get a rough draft done. :-/