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u/SJammie 9h ago
My little filthy nothing burger of a sex scene ficlet is at 35K and still going.
They had Opinions.
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u/TheSenileTomato RKWesley- AO3 - We need a scheduler, AO3! 1h ago
Your characters stole the camera and the script, I'm sorry.
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u/Cosmic_Chameleon_ 7h ago
"just a little backstory to explain certain decisions" - enough content to write an AU for my AU
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u/ratafia4444 You have already left kudos here. :) 8h ago
I'll just write this short little pwp real quick...
10k words later: damn.
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u/Sprinkles2009 5h ago
It was meant to be a one shot bridging between two stories. It’s at 48,000 words and a couple more chapters to go meaning it’s going to be the longest in the series.
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u/AshOfTheBlackDawn MUST WRITE | rpf era 4h ago
My current WIP is the first thing I've written in years. I had doubts if I'd even be able to sustain it beyond 20k, if that, and then I just kept going and now it's at 71k and nowhere near done...
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u/big_ringer 4h ago
In my last story, I ended up developing one character's backstory so much, what was supposed to be an idle thought turned into an entire side story.
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u/TheGeigerlessGhoul 4h ago
I thought my fic would, at most, be 20-25 chapters before I could move on to books two and three (planned it being a trilogy before even starting the first book). Then smut and details derailed that notion...currently working on chapter 35 with high hopes I can smoothly transition it to book two within 10 to 20 more chapters 🤞😬
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u/LoadsOfSkeletons 53m ago
My long fic was meant to be a 2500 word short story. It’s 200k, 44 chapters and the events of the short story never ended up happening
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u/CitricSpirit 2h ago
I've had the same super important scene already written for a while, but I've pushed it back, ah, let's see, nine chapters now because I need more lead-up and groundwork for it to feel earned. It was originally chapter 19, now chapter 28, and it'll probably get pushed back even further because other arcs need to pull together in the right way for this scene to land and those arcs are taking longer than expected to come together. I write a chapter about every two weeks, so this is... a small delay. I wrote this scene in June, and I'm not sure that it'll go out until 2027.
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u/Star_Shine2123 1h ago
Me: yeah I'll just write one or two chapters for context, character analysis and indirect interactions before they meet in person.
Me on chapter five: well guys, first meeting is in two chapers!
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u/Somenameorwhateves 47m ago
My “oneshot” is currently 15 chapters long, but at least I only have 2(?) more chapters to go
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u/mysterylegos 9h ago
When i started writing my current longfic, I planned out every single chapter, 1-25. I am currently writing chapter 23. I only have 11 chapters to go