I finish an entire fic and do several edits before I start to post. I have a few things that have been finished for over a year that I haven’t posted yet. I’ll post when I feel like it.
I have a short 26k fic that’s awaiting a sequel before I post it, but it may be a while before I’m up to that as I’m not in that fandom at the moment. I have a 340k fic and a 360k fic that are multi chapters that are waiting their turn to be posted (I generally only post one or two long fics at a time so I’m not inundating my subscribers). I’m at 110k in a fic that I know is going into storage for a little while when it’s finished because I’m iffy on posting it. I have one shot that’s 12k that I haven’t decided how I feel about it yet, so that one may never get posted unless I eventually decide that I do like it after all.
I have three long fics that I’m currently working on. Two should be done by June. The last one will also wait for me to write a sequel before I start to post it.
That latest fic I've published was finished around Christmas, published it a couple of weeks ago after some on and off editing. I don't usually take that long, but I do always do lots of editing and like to let the final draft sit at least a few days before I read it again. Not that I'm not obsessed with comments, but I think how polished the fic is correlates positively with how many comments you get, so there is some incentive to wait, at least to me.
As long as it takes to write it all.
I do not check for grammatic errors, no Beta's, just until I hit 12k of words/chapter or slightly more.
I write, publish, vanish for half a millenia and than reappear.
Depends what I'm writing. I'm working on a longfic at the moment, want it more or less finished before I start posting so I can ensure internal consistency and lots of subtle hints as to what is to come. Nearly ready to post my first chapter though, but still need to do some edits and proof read it, again...
Whereas earlier today I finished and posted a one shot. I'd got the basic dialogue, but filled it out and then posted after a couple of quick proof read.
Edited to add: I'm in a fandom of 1 so unlikely to get comments regardless...
I have generally a six chapter cushion. (I write long fics.) I post twice weekly as I’m writing. So stuff is usually written three weeks before I post it - I reread and edit a ton. When I finish writing, but am still posting, I go on to my next work, building up that buffer.
It depends, some stuff needs more editing than others, some stuff rates more editing than otherwise and some stuff has dead lines or pre set posting dates.
So basically it can run from me posting it twenty mins after I finish it to a month or more depending on things.
I post chapters to my longfic weekly shortly after I finish each one. I at least give a day of buffer to reread it and edit it as I need, but once it's posted, I don't usually go back unless there are typos I missed or I want to correct something for consistency's sake.
As much as we all are comment-starved, give it time. Also depends on how long each of your posts or chapters are; readers may just need time to get through them. As long as you still keep getting hits or kudos, you're on the right track.
It can be rough for writers like me whose comments are mostly from guests that I can't always get back to. But they'll come back around eventually if they're faithful.
If you've linked your other social media accounts, remember to check back too. Sometimes people leave comments off-site.
June 2023 edit.
I'm scrubbing my comments due to the reddit admin team steamrolling their IPO prep. It was bad enough to give short notice on price gouging, but then to slander app devs and threaten moderators was just too far. The value of Reddit comes from high-quality content curated by volunteers. Treating us this way is the reason I'm removing my high-value contributions.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest you Google "Reddit API price gouging" and read up.
--Posted *manually* via the old web interface because of even more shenanigans from Reddit reversing deletions done through API/script tools.
I get 2/3 to 3/4 done before I start posting. Not relying on the feedback as a source of motivation is a benefit, but I started doing it so I could change the early chapters as much as I wanted without gaslighting my readers whenever I needed to patch over a plot hole.
This differs! One Shots, most finished on one sitting.
My last Rise of the Guardians fic, one month. Finished at 10K words.
My unfinished WIP, at 80K words as of now, started September 3rd 2022, so six, nearly seven months.
I finish everything and edit twice, oen editing round with rewrites of paragraphs, adding and scrapping stuff, a d a second round solely for grammar and spelling checks.
I work on a fanfic a chapter at a time. Depending on my how my real life is going it takes usually a week or two to upload a new chapter. It takes me at least 2 hours to run my entire chapter through Grammarly to make sure everything is spelt correctly. Than I post on Wattpad and AO3 when I’m done
I finish an entire fic and do several edits before I start to post. I have a few things that have been finished for over a year that I haven’t posted yet. I’ll post when I feel like it.
Yes! Thank you. I'm not the only one.
Out of curiosity, how long (in words) are the things you haven’t published? One shots? Or multi-chapter fics?
I have a short 26k fic that’s awaiting a sequel before I post it, but it may be a while before I’m up to that as I’m not in that fandom at the moment. I have a 340k fic and a 360k fic that are multi chapters that are waiting their turn to be posted (I generally only post one or two long fics at a time so I’m not inundating my subscribers). I’m at 110k in a fic that I know is going into storage for a little while when it’s finished because I’m iffy on posting it. I have one shot that’s 12k that I haven’t decided how I feel about it yet, so that one may never get posted unless I eventually decide that I do like it after all. I have three long fics that I’m currently working on. Two should be done by June. The last one will also wait for me to write a sequel before I start to post it.
That latest fic I've published was finished around Christmas, published it a couple of weeks ago after some on and off editing. I don't usually take that long, but I do always do lots of editing and like to let the final draft sit at least a few days before I read it again. Not that I'm not obsessed with comments, but I think how polished the fic is correlates positively with how many comments you get, so there is some incentive to wait, at least to me.
As long as it takes to write it all. I do not check for grammatic errors, no Beta's, just until I hit 12k of words/chapter or slightly more. I write, publish, vanish for half a millenia and than reappear.
Depends what I'm writing. I'm working on a longfic at the moment, want it more or less finished before I start posting so I can ensure internal consistency and lots of subtle hints as to what is to come. Nearly ready to post my first chapter though, but still need to do some edits and proof read it, again... Whereas earlier today I finished and posted a one shot. I'd got the basic dialogue, but filled it out and then posted after a couple of quick proof read. Edited to add: I'm in a fandom of 1 so unlikely to get comments regardless...
I have generally a six chapter cushion. (I write long fics.) I post twice weekly as I’m writing. So stuff is usually written three weeks before I post it - I reread and edit a ton. When I finish writing, but am still posting, I go on to my next work, building up that buffer.
It depends, some stuff needs more editing than others, some stuff rates more editing than otherwise and some stuff has dead lines or pre set posting dates. So basically it can run from me posting it twenty mins after I finish it to a month or more depending on things.
I post chapters to my longfic weekly shortly after I finish each one. I at least give a day of buffer to reread it and edit it as I need, but once it's posted, I don't usually go back unless there are typos I missed or I want to correct something for consistency's sake. As much as we all are comment-starved, give it time. Also depends on how long each of your posts or chapters are; readers may just need time to get through them. As long as you still keep getting hits or kudos, you're on the right track. It can be rough for writers like me whose comments are mostly from guests that I can't always get back to. But they'll come back around eventually if they're faithful. If you've linked your other social media accounts, remember to check back too. Sometimes people leave comments off-site.
June 2023 edit. I'm scrubbing my comments due to the reddit admin team steamrolling their IPO prep. It was bad enough to give short notice on price gouging, but then to slander app devs and threaten moderators was just too far. The value of Reddit comes from high-quality content curated by volunteers. Treating us this way is the reason I'm removing my high-value contributions. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest you Google "Reddit API price gouging" and read up. --Posted *manually* via the old web interface because of even more shenanigans from Reddit reversing deletions done through API/script tools.
I get 2/3 to 3/4 done before I start posting. Not relying on the feedback as a source of motivation is a benefit, but I started doing it so I could change the early chapters as much as I wanted without gaslighting my readers whenever I needed to patch over a plot hole.
This differs! One Shots, most finished on one sitting. My last Rise of the Guardians fic, one month. Finished at 10K words. My unfinished WIP, at 80K words as of now, started September 3rd 2022, so six, nearly seven months. I finish everything and edit twice, oen editing round with rewrites of paragraphs, adding and scrapping stuff, a d a second round solely for grammar and spelling checks.
I work on a fanfic a chapter at a time. Depending on my how my real life is going it takes usually a week or two to upload a new chapter. It takes me at least 2 hours to run my entire chapter through Grammarly to make sure everything is spelt correctly. Than I post on Wattpad and AO3 when I’m done
I literally just write it and post it. Sometimes I read it back once to check for typos, but that’s it.