30DoW: Day 23
Aug. 23rd, 2010 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravenswept23. How long does it usually take you to complete an entire story—from planning to writing to posting (if you post your work)?
You want to know? You and me both.
Okay, not quite true, but I don't entirely count short stories as the ones that I do write aren't planned and work out more as exercises than what I'd consider actually writing. I think the longest short story I wrote took about three days, on and off, with about two hours of planning.
Planning can take- has taken years on some projects. Others I'm coming into months, and others are just days out. Progress, I not has it.
Writing, eh...
Posting, well, I've posted excerpts, and a few early chapters of some things, but (after learning these things from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
limiinal and jkoyanagi) I probably won't post much of what I consider to be actual story material online, at least not without friend-screening. Apparently public posting stories is a bad thing for future publishing ambition; good thing to know.
You want to know? You and me both.
Okay, not quite true, but I don't entirely count short stories as the ones that I do write aren't planned and work out more as exercises than what I'd consider actually writing. I think the longest short story I wrote took about three days, on and off, with about two hours of planning.
Planning can take- has taken years on some projects. Others I'm coming into months, and others are just days out. Progress, I not has it.
Writing, eh...
Posting, well, I've posted excerpts, and a few early chapters of some things, but (after learning these things from
limiinal and jkoyanagi) I probably won't post much of what I consider to be actual story material online, at least not without friend-screening. Apparently public posting stories is a bad thing for future publishing ambition; good thing to know.