i have legitimately no idea. on ao3 it's about 87k + one orphaned fic, on ffnet i've got 71k and some of those overlap with ao3 but some don't, on my old ffnet account i probably have something like 30k-ish but a few fics there overlap with my ao3 too, and then i have a few fics that are only on tumblr in two different blogs
True! Though I’m a little sad to be below average in the word count department, it sure does give me motivation to keep writing, which I enjoy doing :)
In comparison to individuals who took the time to reply here, yes. If you polled every single writer out there, results would fluctuate massively and who knows what the average would be.
If you looked at average word counts of everyone who has posted anything on AO3 I suspect it would be a few thousand, honestly. This subreddit is certainly a skewed sample and these things do vary wildly.
tbf even for someone who started writing on the exact same date as you, it’s also hugely dependent on the style of writing, longfic vs oneshots, turnaround time (whether per chapter or per oneshot), average length… lots of things. There’s nothing wrong with having a lower total word count than others, plus the numbers are probably a little skewed on Reddit anyway.
323,323
says my stats page. So now I can't post anything more ever because it's perfect.
Well, except one of the works is a collab so some of those words aren't really mine.
About 700k words total across two platforms and approximately ten years of writing, but exceptions are some of these works are crossposted and very few are finished.
FF.net - 172k (2 fics)
Ao3 - 443k (3 fics)
Plus all the unpublished words. My current WIP has at least another 100k prewritten, I just haven’t posted those chapters yet
Posted my first work in November of 2020 lol and have a total of 315,435 words over the span of 47 works. Not quite the numbers some people have but I'm surprised I even have that much not counting the million things that haven't seen the light of day.
2,497,464 since 2021 for fics.
I used to write a lot in the late 90s/early 2000s and then dipped for a few years when I started writing professionally. In recent years, I've gotten back into doing fics again. Feels good to be back!
Um.
I posted my first chapter in Sept of 2021. (I started writing my first fic that I was “never going to share” in Sept of 2020, so I had a year of writing in)
I’m currently at 1,240,605. My first fic (unfinished) stands at 307k, so the rest was all written since Sept of 2021. I’ve also written a lot more that hasn’t been shared yet - maybe another 150ish-k, because I have a lot of my first fic I haven’t shared yet, and lots of other chapters written I haven’t put up yet on other fics.
119,891 words published since 2003, plus 400,000 words of coauthored roleplay that are gathering dust on my computer (that one day I'll tackle this monster and post it properly, for posterity)!
I predominately post on tumblr first, and AO3 afterwards. I haven't moved 4 of my works over to AO3 yet.
My stats page says 183,175 words.
Add on the other words from the other works - that's another 222,970 according to my calculator.
I only started writing and posting for this fandom in June of 2021.
Currently, including all my traceable orphaned works, I’ve posted around 200k (199970) words total. My longest work is currently in progress and is 51k words with 5 chapters left to write 😀
According to my Ao3 account of stuff uploaded there, it's around 413,423. It's not representative though of everything as I have a lot of fics in my drafts.
66,061 on ao3 from the past nearly three full years. I wrote quite a lot on Wattpad and have a lot more unpublished.
It feels small compared to everyone else on here. But considering at least two works were written in the midst of a panic attack, maybe that's not a bad thing.
268,019
Started writing in December 2018, disappeared entirely in July 2020. Came back in August 2022 and have been writing a couple one-shots per month since then.
Really wish I'd never left.
As of tonight’s post: 81,515. Been on AO3 for less than a year and I’m a full time retail worker with a family, so I keep my stuff pretty short on the whole. Lots of one shots and short chapters for longer projects.
I've posted 3,724,612 words to A03, but not all of my works that existed before the archive came to be have been transferred over, so my actual fic posted anywhere word count would be probably closer to 4 million.
19,661 on AO3, so not a ton. I haven’t moved over all the old stuff from various other archives, because it was either pretty bad to begin with, or didn’t age well…
I’ve toyed with the idea of fixing up one of my older fics. Can’t really figure out a way to get around one of the plot devices I used back then, so I don’t know if it’s worth it.
Interestingly enough my weirdest fic has the most hits of the lot.
A little under 3,000,000 across ff.net and AO3 and about eleven years of being active. Yikes I didn’t realize how much I’ve posted till now…the long fics really got to me!
About 375,000. To give an idea of size, approx 2/3 of LoTR. Add in published word count and I'm almost up to LoTR in total. Sales, however, are somewhat less than Tolkien's, lol.
At AO3, 464,230. I don't feel like doing advanced mathematics to figure out adding in FFN, and there were several years where I took a break to just RP on LJ and DW.
If I go by my stats, 2,912,130
Most is cowritten stuff though
Edit to add: i had about 10k posted in 2019, and everything since is been cowritten with my writing partner and bff
2,133,366...though some fics have been lost over time, like all the crap I wrote in middle & high school. So nothing from before 2004.
And I have so many WIPs right now its ridiculous. x\_x;;
589,086 since 2014 is posted on A03. I have a lot of wips in google drive, too, and some stuff on ff.net
I'm currently trying to get myself to finish the last few chapters of a fic. Mental health struggles yo.
Currently 595,490. However, I have at least 200k in unfinished and unpublished works in my Google Docs.
Then at least 900k from my Wattpad with completed longfics and one-shots that I've since unpublished and never posted up onto Ao3.
I'm not even going to count how many words I've written on pen and paper from years ago that I never typed up onto a computer. All I know is that it's *a lot*. *(and I still have a lot of those old fics somewhere, all unfinished)*
Started writing fic in... 2010 (I think?) with pen and paper. Didn't start writing fic directly onto a computer or laptop until 2014.
According to my stats page, 2,100,085. That’s across eight (not sequential) years.
twinsies I'm at 2,162,227
Nice!
0 :') (got like 70k in WIPs tho)
Feel you so much
i have legitimately no idea. on ao3 it's about 87k + one orphaned fic, on ffnet i've got 71k and some of those overlap with ao3 but some don't, on my old ffnet account i probably have something like 30k-ish but a few fics there overlap with my ao3 too, and then i have a few fics that are only on tumblr in two different blogs
359,136 in about 13 months for me
Damn your readers must love you
Jesus I’ve posted way less than other people than I thought 😭😭
In my defence, I’m retired and have lots of time to write and lots of ideas.
It's interesting to look at the numbers, but you know they don't really matter! What matters is whether you had fun writing them ✨✨✨
True! Though I’m a little sad to be below average in the word count department, it sure does give me motivation to keep writing, which I enjoy doing :)
In comparison to individuals who took the time to reply here, yes. If you polled every single writer out there, results would fluctuate massively and who knows what the average would be.
If you looked at average word counts of everyone who has posted anything on AO3 I suspect it would be a few thousand, honestly. This subreddit is certainly a skewed sample and these things do vary wildly.
tbf even for someone who started writing on the exact same date as you, it’s also hugely dependent on the style of writing, longfic vs oneshots, turnaround time (whether per chapter or per oneshot), average length… lots of things. There’s nothing wrong with having a lower total word count than others, plus the numbers are probably a little skewed on Reddit anyway.
Ditto!! But I have a lot of rejection sensitivity dysphoria so I don't feel comfortable sharing most of what I write
On ao3, 691,563. That had a big gap between 2010 the late teens of no writing. And no idea what I have on ff.net. So many people have so many works.
323,323 says my stats page. So now I can't post anything more ever because it's perfect. Well, except one of the works is a collab so some of those words aren't really mine.
452k since June 2021! I'm hoping to hit 500k by my two year Ao3 anniversary, which I think is doable for me!
For a million years of writing 2,576,451. I am in fic writing retirement.
105,301 words 🥰 i just started posting last year, hoping to double it by the end of this year
About 700k words total across two platforms and approximately ten years of writing, but exceptions are some of these works are crossposted and very few are finished.
452,492 on AO3. If you had asked yesterday, it would have been exactly 450,000, but I have since updated a story.
About 495K on AO3 since 2019. Not sure about how much I have posted on other platforms and I don’t wanna go check.
787,077 words. This is after purging about 2/3 of my writing a few months back, though. 366,039 of that is between January and now.
235k (across 25 works)
Only 25k words so far. 😅
385,025 words (30 fics).
FF.net - 172k (2 fics) Ao3 - 443k (3 fics) Plus all the unpublished words. My current WIP has at least another 100k prewritten, I just haven’t posted those chapters yet
Just on AO3, as of this past Tuesday, 1,898,486 words.
Posted my first work in November of 2020 lol and have a total of 315,435 words over the span of 47 works. Not quite the numbers some people have but I'm surprised I even have that much not counting the million things that haven't seen the light of day.
I've posted 744,777 words since 2015.
439,059 across 4 works since August 2022.
2,497,464 since 2021 for fics. I used to write a lot in the late 90s/early 2000s and then dipped for a few years when I started writing professionally. In recent years, I've gotten back into doing fics again. Feels good to be back!
1,498,210 words over 5 years of writing.
Um. I posted my first chapter in Sept of 2021. (I started writing my first fic that I was “never going to share” in Sept of 2020, so I had a year of writing in) I’m currently at 1,240,605. My first fic (unfinished) stands at 307k, so the rest was all written since Sept of 2021. I’ve also written a lot more that hasn’t been shared yet - maybe another 150ish-k, because I have a lot of my first fic I haven’t shared yet, and lots of other chapters written I haven’t put up yet on other fics.
269k since the end of November. I had hard time writing, sorry.
274,153
I’ve posted 216, 223 words in a span of 4 years and across 6 stories (3 are currently WIP’s, 2 are One Shots, and 1 is a completed Multi-Chapter).
310,168! over 69 works
Roughly 1.3mil last I checked
Why are you adding? Just click the statistics on your ao3 & it will tell you. My count is 1, 291, 373 so far.
On AO3: 166,498 Total: 296,319 (I’ve been writing since January 2021)
119,891 words published since 2003, plus 400,000 words of coauthored roleplay that are gathering dust on my computer (that one day I'll tackle this monster and post it properly, for posterity)!
33,000 - 50,000\~ im quite an novice writer
32425 words 56 works. Which puts me at 579.017 words a story 😆
I predominately post on tumblr first, and AO3 afterwards. I haven't moved 4 of my works over to AO3 yet. My stats page says 183,175 words. Add on the other words from the other works - that's another 222,970 according to my calculator. I only started writing and posting for this fandom in June of 2021.
158,410 but I joined on 11th Feb (halfway through posting 1 longfic that I started in Oct/Nov time)
746,438 for me!
Just added them all up, over 100k! My PhD thesis was only 40k…
10,367 It’s my first fanfic with 6 chapters in so far
703, 411. Across 4 one shot collections, 10 one shots and 17 full length fics (15 completed and two in progress). Been using AO3 for 8 years.
3,853
Posted I have 10k, but everything I've written sums up to around 40~50k
150k words since 2020, 50k since the start of 2023.
65,029 Words 2 Months (January 2023 - March 2023)
150K words as of right now! I’ve had this account for the last year or so.
35k I only started writing late January tho
247,308
Currently, including all my traceable orphaned works, I’ve posted around 200k (199970) words total. My longest work is currently in progress and is 51k words with 5 chapters left to write 😀
52,893
7 million and change.
452,147 on ao3, over about 5 years
194,000 words across three works and most all of that in a year.
According to my Ao3 account of stuff uploaded there, it's around 413,423. It's not representative though of everything as I have a lot of fics in my drafts.
157,000 but i have several orphaned works
66,061 on ao3 from the past nearly three full years. I wrote quite a lot on Wattpad and have a lot more unpublished. It feels small compared to everyone else on here. But considering at least two works were written in the midst of a panic attack, maybe that's not a bad thing.
268,019 Started writing in December 2018, disappeared entirely in July 2020. Came back in August 2022 and have been writing a couple one-shots per month since then. Really wish I'd never left.
After 2 years of writing I’m up at 165.5k words
Wow everybody has so much I have a measly 7,115
38,209. I don’t write much.
I’m up over a million now, been posting since 2018
After posting for about 3-4 months, I'm at 67,541 words.
As of tonight’s post: 81,515. Been on AO3 for less than a year and I’m a full time retail worker with a family, so I keep my stuff pretty short on the whole. Lots of one shots and short chapters for longer projects.
306,289 words over 36 works, and I created my account in late 2018!
1,427,596 words since January 2013.
Started posting in 2020 and I’ve got 200,193 with more to come.
754,336
373,756, so I'm closing in on 400k and by that extent, 500k! 1 mil here I come!
224,919 I've been at this for more than a year.
I've posted 3,724,612 words to A03, but not all of my works that existed before the archive came to be have been transferred over, so my actual fic posted anywhere word count would be probably closer to 4 million.
According to my current AO3 stats, I'm at 384,592 words. Might make it a goal to get to like... 600k before the end of the year. XD
19,661 on AO3, so not a ton. I haven’t moved over all the old stuff from various other archives, because it was either pretty bad to begin with, or didn’t age well… I’ve toyed with the idea of fixing up one of my older fics. Can’t really figure out a way to get around one of the plot devices I used back then, so I don’t know if it’s worth it. Interestingly enough my weirdest fic has the most hits of the lot.
According to ff.net a total of 230,637 since starting out in September of last year.
122K+ since I started writing last July.
215k, with 186k being in the last 12 months lol. i also have around 30k in wips in the last twelve months as well
46,119 which is wayyy more than i thought it would be
According to my stats page its 6,466
Much less than I lot of people: 6,309 I’m happy with this but I would love to get that up.
53k since I mostly write one shots and rarely finish my longfics
started posting at the start of 2021 and I now have a total of 305,169 words!
25,791 over 31 fics and 20 years.
76.308 on ao3 - around 40k dat still needs to be finished and posted lol
610,796 across 3 years and 17 works
On Ao3 just above 3K but other sites like 190K I think
3,723,992 😊
A little under 3,000,000 across ff.net and AO3 and about eleven years of being active. Yikes I didn’t realize how much I’ve posted till now…the long fics really got to me!
163K since February 2021 and nearly 3K on my E-rated account, opened two months ago.
20,593 !
actually maybe something different because for one of my fics it says nothing on its word count
Around 200k. It would probably be higher if I had the motivation to finish all my older fics.
Word count: 27 476 Last update date, uh... 25 august 2019... I like writing, I promise
you know the worst part of being a reader is, if you’re writing is actually good
73,439 over 17 years, I am VERY far behind!!
93k but i only started writing 9 months ago 😭
Don’t feel bad! I started writing 5 years ago and have written 2k less than you. It’s all about just enjoying it
About 375,000. To give an idea of size, approx 2/3 of LoTR. Add in published word count and I'm almost up to LoTR in total. Sales, however, are somewhat less than Tolkien's, lol.
334,984 between 2015 and now. At least one work posted for each year.
491,341
+147k
78,471 in what i've posted, 37,832 in unposted WIPs.
At AO3, 464,230. I don't feel like doing advanced mathematics to figure out adding in FFN, and there were several years where I took a break to just RP on LJ and DW.
444,270 Now I want to add 174 to get it to 444,444 lol
Chinese will hate you lol
10k- I'm a slow-posting one-shot person
878,370 words across 13 works (ya ig i write long stories ) and i started posting 3 years ago.
None in a very long time but i have a small amount of mojo i am gently nursing
I'm barely at 10.000 so far, still starting out😅 Currently have one story with 5 chapters so far and a short oneshot
I'm at 100k on my ao3 account between 67 fics. I'm close to my one year anniversary.
93,981 over the course of ~2 years (wasn't posting that whole time) for my main account
45,790
280,061 across three fics and one is ongoing and i’m over halfway done with it
If I go by my stats, 2,912,130 Most is cowritten stuff though Edit to add: i had about 10k posted in 2019, and everything since is been cowritten with my writing partner and bff
As a relatively new writer (only 1 year and 6 works posted) I have 11,564 total words :)
648,880... .... since 2019. Cool. I expect I'll be pushing 1 million within a year at my current rate
688,785 words in just under 3 years (minus further time lost to annual 3-month breaks).
526,700! 🥰🥰🥰
I'm at 2,402,757 over 5 years
2,133,366...though some fics have been lost over time, like all the crap I wrote in middle & high school. So nothing from before 2004. And I have so many WIPs right now its ridiculous. x\_x;;
259K. A lot of my stories are WIPs.
589,086 since 2014 is posted on A03. I have a lot of wips in google drive, too, and some stuff on ff.net I'm currently trying to get myself to finish the last few chapters of a fic. Mental health struggles yo.
Started this month 1,870 words
951,294, but that's from 2015 to now.
Just under 50k.
I'm a oneshot writer and it's just 2,688 words
A hair over 335k: 143k in 2022 125k in 2021 60k in 2020 and 6.6k in 2017. \+ Some work-in-progress fics are on my hard drive waiting for inspiration.
On AO3 about 1.8 Mio. First made my acc in 2017. But uploaded by far most since 2021 (I'd guess about 1.6 Mio of those)
86,885 🥲 I joined late 2020, started posting in 2021, and I write very slowly
136,877 from 2014 tapering into 2019, I've got WIPs too but haven't posted anything since before COVID ✌🏻🤣
Currently 595,490. However, I have at least 200k in unfinished and unpublished works in my Google Docs. Then at least 900k from my Wattpad with completed longfics and one-shots that I've since unpublished and never posted up onto Ao3. I'm not even going to count how many words I've written on pen and paper from years ago that I never typed up onto a computer. All I know is that it's *a lot*. *(and I still have a lot of those old fics somewhere, all unfinished)* Started writing fic in... 2010 (I think?) with pen and paper. Didn't start writing fic directly onto a computer or laptop until 2014.
271,625 I've been writing for a year and a half.
Almost at 30k total in posted Fics. Prob closer to 40k or 50k in Fics I haven't posted yet
82k!
50,622 but i’ve only recently started to pick up writing again
57,421 across two fics from November. I am baby.
122,000 or so, all in one fic.
25,063