How long does it take you to write?

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Bunny

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For me it can take me 5 minutes to a week to write a poem. It depends on whether I'm satisfied or not. Sometimes I get stuck.

When I write an Essay, it takes about 4 hours to a day.

When I write stories they can take from 30 mins to forever (like my novel) depending on the time I have to write it :D.

 

 

Haffina

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It depends. Poetry usually takes a few minutes..and I rarely edit or revise at a later date. If it doesnt work at the time then thats it really.
Stories can take weeks, months..couple have even taken a couple of years <> I have to be in the right frame of mind to write stories..and that has been more rare of late. :(

 

Bunny

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Yeah, agreed. All writing takes a mindset :).

 

Lunar

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I never think "Oh, I'm going to write a poem now."
It just sort of comes to me.
I've been writing my story for over a year now :P

 

Runic

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depends my deepest take minutes my more thought about takes about 20 mins

 

Kimberley

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Blogs can take a few minutes to a week... like this one... depending on the content :shame:

 

WireMySoul

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For me, I suppose it depends on what I'm trying to write and how in-depth I want to get.

I wrote back-stories for my role playing characters and those took several days for the longest to a few hours for the shortest.

Out of the many stories I wrote, only four survived. And out of those four, only one of them is my favorite, which is also the longest.

Essays don't usually take me more than a few hours, if I have all my material ready. If I have to do research as I write, it will most likely take me a day or two to get my wording straight. :)

 

Bunny

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Same on the essays!

What's a back story?

 

WireMySoul

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Bunny (10:16pm Sun, Mar 15, 2009)
What's a back story?

A history of the character. I think there's a better term for it, but I can't think of it right now, lol.

 

Bunny

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Prologue? !LMAO!


I dunno, it's cool :D

 

Wolfy

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It took me, like, a month and a half to complete the rough draft of my first novel. But I wasn't expecting it. It just sort of poured out of me and when I was finished I was like "Hey, this is a book!" lol. It took me a whole year to get to where I was satisfied with it as a final draft.

 

Bunny

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Awesome :D

Have you had an editor go over it?

 

bravebluemice

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Most of my short stories come out of me in an hour or so.  My novel took me AGES to outline, but it's a VERY specific outline, and quite detailed (Kenny says it's a few adverbs short of being the novel itself).

The writing of that novel is scheduled to take place over a month's worth of time, whether that's NaNo 2009 or some random thirty day period that I have yet to define, we'll see.

In the mean time I have a half dozen shorts that need writing and editing...

~BBM

 

Skyring

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Depends.

A limerick, I can usually dash off in a few minutes.

A blog post, ten minutes to half an hour, depending on length - I get into a certain speed and it just flows out, pausing only if I want to look something up or add in a photograph.

Writing fiction, well, that can flow.

Or not. If I stop to think, it can really hold things up.

NaNoWriMo is an excellent way for keeping the thing rolling along. I can always go back afterwards and rewrite!

But often it's not the writing, but the thinking, and tht can take months or years before the jigsaw pieces fall into place.

I guess a thousand words a day is good first draft pace for me.

--Peter

 

Rainman

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When I'm writing a story, the first part that involves establishing the setting, introducing characters and the story, always is tedious to me. So it can take a week or two to write 20-25 pages. But once that's done, the story sort of sucks me in and I write damn too fast then slow down again when I get to the final part of the story because, one must be very careful to ensure you give the reader an ending they will like. On average it takes about two months to complete writing a novella.

 

EllyMarks

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Most of the time taken up is worldbuilding research, character development, and plot outlining. That can take years, or at least several months.

When all of that is done, I can hammer out 10,000 words in about one week...provided that I don't do anything else but eat, sleep, and use the bathroom. :O

And, you know, provided that the story itself can stretch over that many words given my personal sense of description. I can get into the mindset to win NaNoWriMo, for example, but I never have because my stories are done at around 30,000 words.

 

QuirkyJessi

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Oh this one greatly varies for me! Many items take me a lot longer than I'd like for them to because I'm just not happy with them. Other items, though, I can bang out super fast.

For example, I type roughly 115 words a minute, so if my thoughts are already gathered, then I can finish as fast as my fingers can carry me along through what I want to say. If I don't have to stop and think then, I could potentially write a 500 word article in 5 minutes. Realistically, I'm going to research, double back for edits, et, though.

 

Skyring

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Rainman (03:19am Fri, Feb 28, 2014)
When I'm writing a story, the first part that involves establishing the setting, introducing characters and the story, always is tedious to me. So it can take a week or two to write 20-25 pages.
Just wondering here, if the writing of the beginning is tedious to you, how does it feel to the reader?

I say this without any experience of your writing, but it just struck me as kind of odd. Careful work to get the opening right, thoughtful placement of images and "hooks", yeah.

But "tedious"?

That's the part I write in a rush. I know my stuff, I'm sure of my ground, I'm embarking on the adventure! The words flow.

Later on, they might bog down when i become unsure of myself.

--Pete

 

angelicagapit

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When I write in a serious sense, such as writing an article or writing for my blog, it takes a few days for me to write a 1-page article.

I say a few days because I actually take notes every day. I take notes on what I think is important to write about that certain topic. All ideas can't just come to me in hours, it has to come in time within a whole week if I really want to put some thought in my writings.

I take writing very seriously if necessary, and it takes quite a while to perfect my work.

 

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Jade Elizabeth is an eccentric young woman who enjoys writing stories and poems with hidden deeper meanings. She is quoted saying “Writing to me is not a hobby. It's a passion. It's something that lets my thoughts expose themselves, and my heart shine through where other art could not.”

Commonly her poems are inspired by love or depression, and are dedicated to the people who encouraged the emotion. Given the chance she will readily pull her poems apart, exposing the deeper and hidden meanings behind her words.

Her stories are usually unspoken messages to those close to her – giving every story a hidden meaning. Some things are better left unsaid, or in her case, expressed indirectly through stories.

Jade used to write Documentation for Simple Machines in her free time, but has since begun studying and working, which takes up most of her free time now.

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