Size does matter

[hils]

I'm suffering from the same thing danceswithgary does, only not on such a large scale.

When I first started writing for Smallville my average fic length was 1000-2000 words. 3000 was a long one for me.

These days 5000 is a short one and most of my fics seem to be averaging 7000-8000 words.

CLFF is currently 3000 words long and nowhere near done *g*

Actually, why am I grinning? It's due on Monday. Gah!

I wonder if I'll ever break the 10,000 mark...

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[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

I'm going in the other direction. When I was writing Battlestar Galactica in the '80s, I wrote entire story-length zines, as well as masses of shorter stuff - so much that, going through old zines now to retype things for my website, I keep finding fics I have no memory of writing at all. For Quantum Leap in the 90s, I wrote a handful of stories of 10,000 words or so, and some shorter stuff. Nowadays, with SN, I think I'm doing well if I hit 1,000. Mind you, it's harder to write plots for SN, it's mostly just character studies. That might account for it, or it may be that I used up all the words I know.