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Yuletide Weather Forecast:
 
Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There's a fic in the Yuletide 2020 collection that's between 61k and 64k words. I barely managed 3k. :(

[(Anonymous)]

congrats to them for that achievement and congrats to you for yours.

[(Anonymous)]

I know there are people who can and do write that fast, but honestly my first assumption would be someone who already had a wip that happened to fit a prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, especially if they happen to be gaming hard towards friends, which I know a duo from my old fandom are probably doing.

(I have a pet theory that I ran into them anonymously bemoaning how no one is in their new tiny fandom, except, hey, I’m in tiny fandom, I’d love to talk about it! Then silence. I know it could have been anyone, but it was such a classic them series of oh-so-lonely-small-fandom-wait-no-one-else-touch-it between that moment and their Yuletide signups that I still hold the idea in my heart.)

[(Anonymous)]

One year I got 45k into a yuletide fic, realized it was way too big for the time I had, and then picked up a new canon because panic panic bears.

I was able to do it because I was 25 with a 10am-6pm work schedule and a short commute, so I'd wake up, get ready, make coffee, write as much as I could in whatever time I had left and continue on the next day--I usually hit 1,500-2,500 words a day/in 1.5-2 hour blocks?

Ten years later with more worries, a different schedule, and less energy I could not keep up that pace.

Someday I will actually finish that mofo.

[(Anonymous)]

If someone did nanowrimo, that's 50k right there, with almost three weeks of editing on top. It's pretty doable if you can stick with it. But you should feel good for 3k, coalie. I had to default.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. It's doable if you're committed to writing (nearly) every day and know what you want to say.

[(Anonymous)]

A story is as long as it needs to be. Sometimes that's just over 1,000, sometimes (apparently) it's over 63,000. It's not a competition. Be proud of what you accomplished.

[(Anonymous)]

They're ridiculous, that's just repurposing a WIP. Which is fine I guess, but not really in the spirit of the exchange.

[(Anonymous)]

You have no way of knowing that. Also, how is it against "the spirit of the exchange"? If someone gifted me with a fic for my rarest fandom I'd be thrilled whether it was newly written or not (as long as it doesn't go against my DNWs and so on, but that's a obvious).

[(Anonymous)]

Given the context of exchange fic, it could be a "WIP".......that the author has been working on since last year/another exchange that literally only exists because they were inspired by the recip's letter and have been working on it forever to finally gift it to them now.

[(Anonymous)]

And what if they're not. As others have said, they may have gamed the process to get a fandom they're already interested in writing and been ready for the exact prompts they got. All of November can be a long time to write (also see: Nanowrimo). It's not out of the scope of possibility that someone got really motivated and just wrote that much.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my mutuals has been posting weekly yt updates as they edged toward and past 50k. I have zero interest in the fandom but I'm pretty sure they really did just start early and write fast, it would be a stupid thing to fake in that much detail for only locked mutuals who don't care about the fandom. It's a fandom that's their primary fandom year=round, which probably helps.

[(Anonymous)]

I've written 45k for Yuletide over the course of the week before the archive opens, before. 60k is definitely possible, especially if people make better decisions and start early.

[(Anonymous)]

"make better decisions"

[(Anonymous)]

lol every year I tell myself I'm gonna start writing before the second week of December and every year it is A Lie