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What's the longest thing you've written, /lit/?

Just curious.

>> No.6279604

28,500 words.
It's impressive to me.

>> No.6279609
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I just finished writing/editing a young adult novel that's about 550 pages long. It would be my debut.

>I also just realized how fucked I am for writing a young adult novel that's about 550 pages long for a debut.

>> No.6279614

99,000 words of a steampunk fantasy novel which is absolute trash. It's about some hooligans that steal an airship and go on a joyride doing random shit before getting captured and they turn the main character into a moth and put him in a jar til he suffocates to death.

>> No.6279623

Not very, maybe a 10 page essay for college?
I write in short bursts. But I think I have a somewhat voluminous amount of short writings saved up, in the form of poems, journal entries (brief, 1-3 pages), and micro-fiction/unfinished short stories. I just don't write long. Probably b/c of my millennial upbringing.

>> No.6279642
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6279642

My freshman year of high school I wrote a 4000 word MLP fan fiction. It's sat on my computer for four years now, rotting.

It's the reason I always cringe when a friend tells me I should try writing for fun.

>> No.6279652

A 22,000 word novella that -- you learn at the end, what a tweest, if you hadn't picked up on it before -- sets the stage for a late Neolothic/Early Bronze Age retelling of the Arthurian mythos. It's all very Robert E Howard-ish.

>> No.6279659

>>6279623
>Probably b/c of my millennial upbringing.

In 20 years time, anything over 50 pages will be considered a doorstopper novel.

>> No.6279669

A story about a man (who is basically me) who goes in the dead of night and fills a bus trap with cement, gets arrested and goes on a rant and eventually through continual lack of cooperation and outright offensiveness to the authorities earns himself 10 years in prison. I wrote it because jackasses kept getting stuck in one and making me late for work.

>> No.6279674

1,452,325 words. Rough draft. Fantasy novel. Follows the life of a squire who finds himself increasingly annoyed by the knight he serves and increasingly bored with the adventures he's led into.
I'd say I'm about half-way finished.

>> No.6279680

7000 words into a horror novel--i always take like 3 day pauses then write like 2000 words for 2 days and repeat.

>> No.6279689

MY DICK

>> No.6279692

>>6279642
I did the exacts same thing.

>> No.6279769

>>6279597
technical manual for an API for a piece of financial software. don't know how many words exactly. it is probably the most boring document in the world.

>> No.6279786

>>6279597
52K word Modern Family fanfiction.

Rave reviews. Nice experiment in short writing to test my ability to construct plot and develop things.

>> No.6279790

Working on 2 novels but I'm almost sure I'll drop one because of the negative responses.

In total, it could be some 150.000 words. On the novel I plan to finish, about 90.000 words total, not much more and it'll be finished.
I still have to rewrite the ending because although the idea is solid, it's currently poorly worded.

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>>6279790
>What's the longest thing you've written, /lit/?
>let me babble on about my unfinished magnus opus that we all know will never be finished because I'm more interested in chatting shit about it than I am in actually producing it.

>> No.6279811

>>6279669
edgy as fuck

>> No.6279874

>>6279597
~7500 word masters dissertation, I can't remember the exact word count.

>> No.6279881

>>6279597

6.400 words

>> No.6279891

>>6279786

kek

>> No.6279903

>>6279891
Don't kek it till you've tried it breh.

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>>6279903

>Modern Family
>52k words
>short
>Modern Family

>> No.6279906

15k words.

It was a Warcraft fanfiction story I wrote when I was 14. I was proud of it at the time but if I went back and read it I would probably cringe hard.

>> No.6279907

>>6279597
Around 20k words for an /mlp/ greentext fanfiction

Help

>> No.6279908

>>6279906

Did it have Night Elf females getting raped?

>> No.6279909

>>6279597
76, 334 words. Debut novel. Fiction.

>> No.6279910

>>6279597
a shitty unfinished short story, 2000 words or so.

>> No.6279915

>>6279905
Don't greentext it till you've tried it breh.

>> No.6279917

>>6279915

Link?

>> No.6279925

I wrote a 125,000 word My Little Pony fanfic a few years ago.

>> No.6279927

about 6-8k words of some generally shitty story about some kids who think they're in a crappy summer camp for the gifted but the reality is closer to the cortexiphan trials from fringe

>> No.6279934

>>6279925
Post it nigs.

>> No.6279936

When I was like 13 years old I wrote an 80pg story that was basically just a shitty version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but with robots

>> No.6279945

I think I wrote like a three page long short story when I was a kid so like 2500 words I guess?

My most recent attempt at a story is currently 337 words long though.

>> No.6280014

>>6279597
A 5000 words porn story.

>> No.6280017

>>6279609
Editing should cut a third out of it

>> No.6280021

>>6279614
That turned Kafka quick.

>> No.6280024

>>6280021
well, at least you tried

>> No.6280036

>>6279917
http://tv.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600098537

>> No.6280045

>>6279908
Nah

>> No.6280066

>>6279609
no one professional counts by pages, what's the word count?

>> No.6280070

My dick

>> No.6280077

>>6279614

Link? I'll read it

>> No.6280081

I actually wrote both Tundra books

t. Anonymous

>> No.6280083

i wrote a short story in grade 7 that was 3-4 pages in size 18 font

>> No.6280092

>>6280036

The prose is actually really good, but that was some sick shit!

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>mfw all these anons writing MLP fanfiction
I've written a 16k unfinished story in the Equestria Girls universe as well as god knows how many words of short stories in both the vanilla MLP and EqG universes. It keeps happening. Please help me.

>> No.6280181

>>6280151
fffffffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggg

>> No.6280189

>>6279614
I'd read it. Link?

>> No.6280191

>>6279642
you are not alone

>> No.6280208

Probably my 160k word Naruto fic.

I'm not proud of it despite 2000 reviews and a million hits.

>> No.6280209

~74000 word book which was more or less simply for practice because I was really bored. It is probably super cringeworthy to read now because I wrote it back in m'fedora days.

Yesterday I finished a 13k word essay on a TV show though. Did it just for fun since I like to write (tremors in my hands make it too hard to draw, so words are the best way for me to make pictures).

>> No.6280219

>>6279908

I used to write a lot of wow erotica. Not sure on word count, but it was like 120 pages single spaced total last I checked.

Most of it is on Darknest, but I have lost my interest in writing that kind of thing for the most part.

>> No.6280226

108 000 word novel, sort of like X-men I guess. Few regular people get powers and go about their lives differently

Not great, but it taught me a lot about writing. Next novel is coming along a lot better and I think it's more interesting

>> No.6280237

It seems like /lit/ is AA for lazy, repentant fan fiction writers.

>> No.6280240

some 20,000 word diatribe on critical theorists and william basinski lol why

>> No.6280241

>>6280240
Let's see it.

>> No.6280250

>>6280237
Fan Fiction is fun. I regret nothing.

>> No.6280258

probably 30 or 40 thousand words of a complicated urban folktale set in a fictional inner city

it was really fucking good
I can't write like that anymore or id finish it

>> No.6280266

Still working on my story, just reediting now though. I plan on publishing it for myself. Its a scifi and is currently at 148,866. Are any of you guys planning on publishing as well?

>> No.6280287

>>6280083
Lol

>> No.6280292

250,000 words. It was my first attempt a novel and I wrote it over the course of a year. I had to put it away because I lost control of it.

Started a new one last month and it has been a very smooth experience compared to the first one. Should end up at about 90,000.

>> No.6280296

>>6280292
wow that's insane. What was it about?

>> No.6280320

>>6280066
Just under 200,000.

>> No.6280331

>>6279945
Here- I'm not the proudest of it, but it IS the thing that got me back into writing long fiction, and it's the reason why I write as much as I do nowadays. In that respect, being a horsefucker has done me some good.

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/182859/its-a-dangerous-business-going-out-your-door

>> No.6280333

>>6280331
I read that one! It's not bad.

>> No.6280337

>>6279674
heh.

>> No.6280385

>>6280296
It is an alternate universe historical fiction novel. It has five characters that span 700 years, the actions of each one compounding upon the other with events that gradually differ from real history. It begins in 14th century Venice and ends in a bombed, scavenger filled 1982 Baltimore.

Needless to say, it was far too much for a first time attempt at a novel and the story quickly spiraled out of my control. I have every intention of finishing it, I just need more experience to properly handle it.

I learned a hell of a lot from the experience though.

>> No.6280761

A 13k metafiction story about a man discovering that dragons had come into existence without him noticing. It sucked.

>> No.6280785

phd thesis, 45k words and still going, so fed up with it

>> No.6280787

I think the longest is around 80k, but it's still just a rough draft. I generally aim between 55-60k. Any shorter won't have room for proper build-up and any longer would become a chore to read.

>> No.6280968

>>6279597
Four sentences.

>> No.6280974

>>6279597
My suicide note.

>> No.6280976

>>6280785
I feel you, I'm now at 50k and sent the entire thing to my supervisor

that's enough

>> No.6281007 [DELETED] 

Single longest thing is 68k of a Demon's/Dark Souls story.

>> No.6281022

600 pages. 4000+ Pages in the series. Do you even epic, bro?

>> No.6281023

124k YA hard sci fi
Currently editing. About a group of people who travel to planets where they're not allowed to go/people don't dare to go and report what life there is like. One of them picks up a girl form Earth and takes her along to planets, but they get into trouble.
It's going to be great, trust me guys.

>> No.6281027

World of Warcraft fanfic and mlp garbage. The only things worse than homestuck

>> No.6281028

>>6281023
>It's going to be great, trust me guys.
Eww, no thanks. Loser.
Hahaha! Let's go girls.

(See you later dork)

>> No.6281030

>>6281028
Aww. He kicked sand in face! He should start working outand then kick that guys ass to take his honeys and be a boss! What the fuck is this, an ad in the back of a comic book during the 80's? Keep kickin sand, buttnut. When Holmes sells his shit and makes bank, he's going to but those gloryhole attendants of yours and fuck them with a rake for fun

>> No.6281045

>>6281030
Is this some /lit/ copypasta? I don't come here often.

Anyway, about this, >>6281023 I am starting to get the feeling that I am better at writing action scenes than anything else. Scene's with tension and excitement come naturally, while slower scenes often needs a lot of work, and even then end up shit.
Any advices on what to read to improve this? I don't intend on becoming the next clive cussler even though "Atlantis found" is fucking brilliant and anyone who say they don't like it are lying

>> No.6281057

>>6281045
Mate,

can't you just become a funny writer - Terry Pratchet like - and skip the personal rot and vegetation required to read YA?

>> No.6281066

>>6281057
Maybe after this. I have this story and characters that I've been working on for over a year, and I really like to work on this story, I just fear I'm not skilled enough yet.
Hence the, "it's going to be great" line

>> No.6281070

>>6279604
It's impressive to me, too. Well done.

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>>6280036
duuuuude wtf

>> No.6281102

Hard-ish science fiction. A pair of brothers who are engineers are sent with four others and a robot to ensure that the colonists for ten new planets arrive safely. Everything that can go wrong does and ultimately the main character has to battle his mentor using only his wits and mcguyver-esque skill to survive. It's lost in space meets interstellar meets dantes inferno meets Moby dick.

>> No.6281117

>>6281102
>moby dick
so what is the equivalent to the whale in your mythos?

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>>6280036
jesus christ

>> No.6281156

>>6281117
The main characters mentor has a militarized space ship that needs next to no crew like that big black fucker in Star Trek into darkness. The main characters ship has next to zero weapons and the mentor has to be stopped at all costs. At this point in the story the two are hellbent on killing each other no matter the collateral damage. I thought the comparison seemed appropriate. No?

>> No.6281197

>>6281156
it sounds ok, if you managed to do it well, anon
go with whatever feels best, i guess

>> No.6281225

I wrote 20k words last November because of NaNoWriMo. It was a science fiction(ish) like Gaiman meets Douglas Adams. It's trash, but it was fun to write. Maybe I'll finish it this year. Well, maybe not.

>> No.6281264

>>6281197
I've already written one epic, (jetpacks and space pirate daughter princesses and shit) this one is going to be more adult and have some real grit to it.

>> No.6281269

>>6281197
I've already written one sophomoric epic (jetpacks and space pirate princesses), this one will be more adult with more grit to it I think

>> No.6281276

>>6281264
>>6281269
nice, dude
care to share?

>> No.6281305

I once wrote a fic where Hermione grew a dolphin penis to impregnate Fleur with for /tv/.

>> No.6281310

>>6281276
Won't post here but if you have a temporary email I'll send you a sample chapter or something

>> No.6281316

>>6281310
done
13a8c0+b2k6acmez2b90@sharklasers.com

>> No.6281341

>>6281310
got it, dude.
thx

>> No.6281349

87,000 word novel. Trying to get it published.

Working on a sequel that should be around 60-70k.

>> No.6281356

>>6281349
If you mail me a copy I can get you published.

>> No.6281361

>>6281349
What's it about? And why do you plan on making the sequal shorter?

>> No.6281381

>>6281341
Sure thing. its speed racer mixed with wipeout in an origins story. This is just the tip of the iceberg before it turns into the grand adventure.its a Monomyth so think of it as the shire before the ring shows up, the moisture farm before the droids show up, or the kid before the letter to hog warts appears. The books were written out of order so when I wrote this one I planted ALL kinds of seeds and foreshadowing for the rest of the series and even the final book/scene. I think kids will lose their shit for it. I wrote it for my neice just after she was born in 2003, I even created a character named after her. What's great is that she's now the age of the target demographic is want to read it. Who wouldn't want an adventure written for them? Oh well. Hit me back. I was serious when I said all constructive criticism will be considered. No one gets it right the first time right?

>> No.6281428

>>6281381
sounds cool
i've got one minor comment
the title is a bit corny to me, but it could be that you are targeting your audience with it, and you like it that way
in any case, i won't judge by it, and will try to read your stuff
you seem like you've got something good figured out
peace out

>> No.6281466

>>6281428
Just wait. The title will make more sense later in the book. Again, thnx

>> No.6281476

>>6280258

Any chance of you sharing it anon? I've always had a side-reverie of someday hoping to write a contemporary/urban compilation of folk tales.

>> No.6281643

>>6281225
>Gaiman meets Douglas Adams.

Oh shit. So it's like, triple the cancer.

>> No.6281795

>>6281643
Eat a dick, nigga. At least the kid is trying. IF I want bad fiction it'll be about your glory hole attendant mother NOT needing her Valtex prescription renewed, faggot.

>> No.6282305

>>6279597
A little over 5000 words Noir short story which I plan on expanding into a novella or possibly a novel.

>> No.6282311

>>6279652
post a sample I fuckin love REH and I would be interested in reading if it's truly in the same style.

>> No.6282385

>>6280036
That twist made me dizzy, I'll give you that.

You can actually write well and what a waste of time and ideas to blow them on a Modern Family fanfiction dude.

>> No.6282411

80 pages of a shitty sci-fi time travel story I wrote when I was a teenager.

I still have it somewhere buried on my computer. I dread to read it.

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>>6280385

That sounds cool as fuck, I'd love to take a gander at some of it.

>> No.6283897

93,000 you plebs

>> No.6283907

>>6282385

what's the twist? I'm not going to read it to find out but I'd like to know please?

>> No.6283916

>>6283907

is the twist that the narrator is Jay or some other character on the show or some stupid shit like that

>> No.6283984

>>6283907
He was feeding her her family the whole time.

>> No.6283985

>>6279597

A 2 page short story 6 years ago

>> No.6284001

>>6283916
Nah, it's some dude who works at the family counseling place that they're always talking to on the show who got obsessed with Alex watching vids of her. Jay makes an appearance like halfway through then in the last bit.

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>>6280036
this was fucking hilarious. If you want some feedback, Imo it was a bit too 120 days of sodomesque. There wasnt much of a plot, it was just edgy torture porn. Still pretty good for a fanfic breh

>> No.6284172

I write a lot of shitty game reviews, a select few being up to around 1000 - 1500 words.

The longest thing I've ever written was a short story with a word count of 7890.

>> No.6284358

>>6280036
my boner showed

>> No.6284380

Been working on a story, am on page 3

>> No.6285033

65k of this fantasy shite

>AT LONG LAST AFTER decades of miserly days spent hiding in the shadows, after bitter years of sourly watching his enemies gather and grow; finally, he had the power he had been craving; the key to his heart’s desire resting in his palm. It was cool to the touch, rounded and smooth. It wasn’t particularly heavy but it held a weight in strength equal to that of a thousand men. When he had found it, eagerly unearthed it from its long forgotten grave, it had shone brightly, red and orange, crimson and gold, awakening in a rainbow of fire to his touch. It was beautiful, a true piece of master craftsmanship from those winged fools. But its beauty mattered less than little; its value to him was in its power, not in its wealth.

I keep it only to remind me of how far I've come.

>> No.6285056

>>6283897
100,882.. Pleb, please

>> No.6285070

>>6285056
882,500. Pleb, pleeeeaaasse

>> No.6285081

>>6279614
i'd the read the shit outta this

>> No.6285083

>>6279597
my diary

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>>6280036
>Modern Family
>story tags
>Abuse, Anal, Angst, BDSM, Beast, B-Mod, Bond, BP, Contro, CR, D/s, Dom, Fet, Fingering, Fist, H/C, HJ, Humil, M/F, M/s, MCD, MiCD, Minor2, Nec, Oral, Other, Preg, Rape, S&M, SI, Slave, Solo, Spank, Tent, Tort, Toys, Violence
>52,000 words

Okay, I'm snowed in today anyway...

>> No.6287241

Sixty page fanfiction crossing over the Lone Ranger with Firefly. Back then I wrote whatever the fuck I felt like now I just do endless outlines and research.

>> No.6287262

3k word short story about a guy who drives in a circle, hits a tree, wakes up in hospital then gets in his car and continues to drive in a circle

there's an internal monologue going on and it's basically him debating something with himself and it's about this fixed idea he has and the story symbolises that concept of his/a fixed idea and that's smart

>> No.6287275

>>6279597
4500 words

>> No.6287291

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10815441/1/CIA-Rises

And it's not even 1/3 done.

>> No.6287402

30 Pages of LOTIAT

>> No.6287580

I think crime and punishment.

>> No.6287593

>>6281361
None of your fucking business. If i get it published you can buy it and find out.

The sequel is more of a spin off i guess. It just follows two of the characters from the first, it's more of just a straight story, I'm not trying to say anything big with it.

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>>6287593

>> No.6288413

>>6279597
This post.

>> No.6288510

>>6279597
5000 word thesis on the development of paranoia in the American Antebellum South. Got me into Grad school fuckers.