#ive written 30k words of fanfic of them as well. help

[katt1281]

it's been a hot second since ive been so obsessed with an OC/Canon ship. your honour theyre in lovee

[mejomonster]

I am trying to build a writimg habit. And Im fascinated to realize I seem to write quite well soon after I wake up, after breakfast and coffee

Its not... ideal. Since I need to stop writing at X time to start work or other daily obligations. So i cant write until the inspiration/motivation wanes, which in a good writimg sessiom might be 4 hours and 10,000 words. In the mornings, Ive pretty much got to stop at 30 minutes to 1 hour, or 1000-2000 words. Because thats all the time I have in the morning, on ideal days. So idk... still testing out if I could set up a afternoon after work before dinner habit instead, as afternoon to evening I can make time to write for 4-6 hours if I end up really into what Im writing.

Anyway. Im not a morning person at all so im kind of surprised I focus faster in the morning.

The other change I made thats helping, as far as making a habit. Is i am giving myself permission to write "anything, however few words come out, on any in progress story, including just story notes instead of a scene." Thats taken the pressure off as now I feel if i only have time for 100 words or inspiration for 100 words I will still START writing, ill give myself permission to write if i only have 5-10 minutes free if Ive got inspiration. And its been working fairly well? Half of the outcome has just been story outline notes, but thats more to rely on later. And the other half has been "later scene drafts" so while theyre rough and a lot of just dialogue and bare bones desxription, theyll make later chapters much less work. The only downside to this is by not focusing on ONE specific story, I may be makimg things somewhat harder for myself by jumping around? Idk. Result is MANY WIPS none finished. But progress on multiple wips so?

Also fun facts. This year Ive written at least 146,000 words. About 46,000 was fanfiction (which damn Im suprised by), some are wips so only maybe 30,000 of those words were posted on ao3. So the bigger news, for me personally? Is Ive wrote about 100,000 words of ORIGINAL FICTION THIS YEAR WOOH! That is a huge accomplishment to me as before this year, the most Ive ever finished was 1 short story of original fiction or drawn 1 chapter of a comic story. And the breakdown: 2 of my stories have about 30k written and are 1/5 done (which makes sense to me as I usually have been able to write 30k fanfics in the past and as long as theyre that short I generally complete writing them easily, and I apparently favor 5 arc story structure lol), 1 story has about 25k written, and 1 story has about 15k. So decent progress made on all.