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Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

What's your word count goal? For both your main gift fic and overall?

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

Overall:

Acceptable: 8k+
Great: 15k+
I am a writing BOSS drunk on my own power: 30k+

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

Looking to get at least 15k total, preferably 18k, depending on if I Heart Attack.

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

My initial goal is to get to 1000, and anything after that is gravy. Each story is as long as it needs to be. I've written everything between just over the minimum to just under 10,000. Longer doesn't always mean better.

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thinking 3k for main and maybe 1.5-2k for treat.

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

Last year I totalled about 10k over three fics, the year before about 18k over seven, so I'm aiming to land somewhere in the middle with a fallback goal of at least matching last year. No main assignment, I decided to go treats only this year.

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

1k

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

My assignment is going to be longish, like 5-10k. I would like to write 2-4 treats of like 1-3k. So, averaging all that out I get:

Assignment: 7.5k
Treats: 6k

For 13.5k total. I would be fine with less, though, as long as I was happy with my assignment and got to write a couple of treats of whatever length.

Re: Word count goal?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to write at least one 10k fic, and a total of 25k over everything.