Really odd pattern...
Didn't mean to post anything today, but I just noticed something really bizarre about the dates I started and finished a lot of my fics. But, see for yourself:
68 Wives: January 2006 - January 2008
Normal: January 2003 - January 2006
Rise and Shine: November 2001 - November 2003
Endure: July 2001 - July 2003
o.O
This means that *all* my slower fics took not just roughly but pretty much *exactly* two or three years (give or take a few days or weeks) from inception to completion.
Did I just say 'all' my slower fics? Yes. Strange but true: everything else on my webspace was written in a matter of weeks or, at worst, months. (Mostly for challenges and the like. I *can* write sort-of-fast, it's just that the result is rarely very good, so I usually don't.)
(There is one borderline case: my BSG ficlet Atlas, which took about a year, which puts it somewhere at the border between fast!fic and slow!fic, though you could say that the fact that it's only a couple hundred words probably makes it slow!fic. ETA: Did I say one year? Just found out it was two years. So: definitely slow!fic.)
68 Wives: January 2006 - January 2008
Normal: January 2003 - January 2006
Rise and Shine: November 2001 - November 2003
Endure: July 2001 - July 2003
o.O
This means that *all* my slower fics took not just roughly but pretty much *exactly* two or three years (give or take a few days or weeks) from inception to completion.
Did I just say 'all' my slower fics? Yes. Strange but true: everything else on my webspace was written in a matter of weeks or, at worst, months. (Mostly for challenges and the like. I *can* write sort-of-fast, it's just that the result is rarely very good, so I usually don't.)
(There is one borderline case: my BSG ficlet Atlas, which took about a year, which puts it somewhere at the border between fast!fic and slow!fic, though you could say that the fact that it's only a couple hundred words probably makes it slow!fic. ETA: Did I say one year? Just found out it was two years. So: definitely slow!fic.)