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artandsomethingcreated · 28 days

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It isnt that i didnt see where people were coming from about long fic. The responses about not reading anything really long.

But today i was looking for a nice fanfic to read, and i found a long one that i thought may be interesting. I had to back out before geting to far because it was just... boring.

When ever that happens i have taken to forceing myself to read and figure out why i dont like it. And that brings me to why i think people balk at high word counts.

It was boring because it had to many words. To much was said with 5 or even more sentences when it could have been 2 or just left out completely.

I am aware what i have now on my story likely needs to be cut and combined in places.

That there are to many of the wrong words. Places where more descriptions are needed and places where characters get stuck in their own heads.

But despite being at almost 150k words i am actually trying to keep it short.

The problem is i am focusing on charicter development, and well there is so so much there and it is slowing me down lol.

Hopefully what i end up with will not be boring. I plan on asking my beta readers to mark where it drags so i can fix it. But i would rather not bore my friends and make them regret agreeing to this 🤣

#ff6 project #Seriousy i got my friends on board before it got so long #One has played the game and is a fanfic author #The other has never played it but writes #Then there is my mom who was the one who taught me to write and had some self published stuff like 20years ago #My mother also doesnt play games so i only really got one beta that can check for game stuff #But since this is kinda a test run for writing original fiction 2 betas from out of the fandom will probably help #I asked my dad but he just kinda looked at me and was like 'uh... i dont really like to read?' Which was the answer i expected 🤣#But he played the game way way back #We played together #Omg if i realized this was going to be such a large project i probably wouldnt have started #But i am COMITED now...#I have been pleasantly surprised my ADHD has been on board for this long #But like. I have always loved to write

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