One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

For the people writing multiple treats

[(Anonymous)]

How long are they? I always want to write treats, but the most I've every been able to manage are two full treats + a madness true drabble.

But then, my main assigment has never been under 5K the past ten years, and usually around the 10K mark. It's just how I've come to prefer to write. Curious to hear from others, though!

Re: For the people writing multiple treats

[(Anonymous)]

Varies a lot depending on the prompt. Longest treat I've written was 20k, but that was in a year when I didn't actually sign up so I had no other main assignment. More typically my exchange fics seem to cluster around 2.5-3.5k for a shorter idea or 7-8k for a more plotty one, and I'll write 3-5 fics total, assignment included. (The most I've ever managed in a single Yuletide was seven fics, and skimming back over the works I posted that year, five of them fell in the 1-2k range which is shorter than I usually manage to keep things.)

Re: For the people writing multiple treats

[(Anonymous)]

In past years, I've sometimes written long treats (once or twice over 10k), but this year, all my treats have been 1-3k. It's just not a longfic year for me - my assignment is about 4k, for that matter.