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gail
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#1 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:07
I am often amazed at the quantity of quality prose that some of the more prolific writers on LSF can publish.

I have just finished the draft of a 2500 word essay that tool me between 3 and 4 hours to write (probably closer to 4). I now have to take a few editing passes over it in the light of day.

How long does it take other writers for an average length submission?

njrick
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#2 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:14
Anywhere from a couple hours to ten years.

canadianspankee
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#3 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:16
I think we all average different times, but to put together 2500 words likely takes me 2 hours however it is far from ready to sent in.

I then spend another 2 hours editing and fixing. After that I leave it for a day and then edit again, running it through my grammar checker. I usually leave it another full day before sending it in.

Total time is close to 8 to 9 hours I suppose, although some take shorter and some take longer.

CS

Guy
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#4 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:49
Writing for me is episodic and iterative. It's episodic because I rarely write an entire story at once, and it's iterative because I take several passes rewriting my way through each story before I am happy with the result. Once written, I then "age" it so I can see my errors, before taking at least two proofreading passes.

Even if I could find someone willing to pay, my output is way too meager for me to ever make a living as a writer.

How much time do I invest in each story? I actually don't have a clue, but I'm sure it varies wildly from story to story.

Guy

Iconoclast13
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#5 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 03:30
At a guess, I would say it takes me two hours to write a thousand words of first draft. The editing process normally goes quite quickly as I do little more than check for spelling and grammatical errors. The really long part for me comes before I write that first word. From the moment I first conceive of an idea, it can take me weeks, months or even years to develop it into a something that's actually readable. I have noticed, though, that the ones which develop quickly usually turn out better in the end than the ones which I have had rattling around in the back of my skull for long periods of time. Perhaps I should start putting expiration dates on my notions...

Seegee
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#6 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 05:11
It varies for me. It can depend on how long the story is, how much time I have to write. All that sort of thing. A full length story (which for me is generally somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 words) seems to pop out about once a month.

opb
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#7 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 07:54
njrick:
Anywhere from a couple hours to ten years

I'm in this camp.

I've not written much prose recently, and I'm fearing that I've lost the knack. There's plenty of ideas there, it's just that making them into an original story seems so hard at the moment - I suppose that's why I'm concentrating on song parodies, I'm finding them far easier to do.

Alef
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#8 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:25
njrick:
Anywhere from a couple hours to ten years.

As I have only been writing for three years, I am not quite sure about the upper end of this interval yet, but it sounds about right. There's a lot of factors involved in how long it takes; I find, e.g., that I usually write faster when the action gets going — it's the build-up, getting the characters, the setting and the atmosphere right, that takes the longest. Unfortunately, I believe in long build-ups....

Lincoln
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#9 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 13:45
A lot of my stories were in my mind long before I joined KLSF, and it was quite easy to transcribe them. It's a bit harder now I have to think up new ideas, and at the moment I have a bit of a writer's block!

I don't think this will last for long, but the hardest bit is formulating the idea in your mind. Putting it on paper after that I don't find too difficult, though the proof checking can be quite tedious, and however hard I try, I always seem to end up with "deliberate" mistakes.

gail
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Canada
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#10 | Posted: 16 Dec 2012 14:03
Alef:
Unfortunately, I believe in long build-ups....

Alef, we women call that foreplay, and we love it !

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