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

[(Anonymous)]

It blew my mind when one of the long-exchange mods, I think it was fffx, asked if they should reduce the art minimum for the equivalent of 10k, and it was an artist saying no, keep it at 40 panels for a comic.

[(Anonymous)]

Forty panels is roughly seven pages and seven pages is roughly a hundred, hundred and ten hours of drawing. Ten thousand words is maybe fifteen hours. These do not seem equivalent effort.

[(Anonymous)]

I also think the art minimums are badly calculated, but "Ten thousand words is maybe fifteen hours" sounds wild to me. 50 hours, maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

You only write three words a minute?

[(Anonymous)]

I could write a pretty decent 10K word fic in a day, but only if I had been thinking about writing it for like a month before hand. That's like a fifth of a word a minute on average.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Not talking about myself. I'm a slow writer - I need way, way more than 50 hours for 10k. I type fast, but crafting the story and making the phrasing come out in a way I find satisfying takes the longest time. I write 100 words, then delete 50 (or sometimes 150), and sometimes I spend 10 minutes before thinking of what I want the next sentence to be. Or I spend an hour researching flight plans to write one paragraph about blorbo's travels. Like, I could spew out 1k of rambly thoughtless nonsense in an hour or less I guess, but I wouldn't want to gift that to anyone.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I wouldn't really count brainstorming and research time because, while it's definitely part of writing time, it's so extremely variable depending on the needs of the fic that it's just hard to put an average to. (And also past a certain point, Wikipedia spiraling about cement because you wanted to look up cobblestones doesn't really count as progress towards the fic)

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

It's impossible to count pure writing time because often the "brainstorming" happens in the middle of a sentence. If you type three words, and then think five minutes about how to continue that sentence and then go back and delete the three first words, that's very much part of the writing process.

[(Anonymous)]

+100

"How long did it take you to type this" is not the question being asked.

[(Anonymous)]

Since we're all basing this on personal experience, a 10 page comic is ~30 hours of just drawing time for me. 10k is about 120 hours worth of writing time. Both of these things require effort, but I have 4 months to do it in for FFFX. Things aren't equally the same amount of hard for everyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[(Anonymous)]

As an artist who participates in FFFX, I kind of vibe with it, because I always overshoot the 40 panel minimum by quite a lot. A lowered minimum won't actually help the fundamental problem of scope.

[(Anonymous)]

+1 lol