Okay, so my writing is beyond weird. I think I probably should have prefaced my post with a similar sentiment.
Lengthwise, I spent years and years writing double drabbles and shortfics around 500-1k and then it suddenly blew up. I can barely get a fic under 10k these days and the thing I'm currently working on is so long it's nothing short of ridiculous. I've found that the more I write... the more I write. I've been writing fic for maybe 15 months now, and most of my earlier stuff is comment fic or stories that top out at 1-2k. I wonder if it's just because of practice or getting more comfortable with writing or what.
I hit *both* "fun" and "agonising" for writing, because writing tends to be fun but I have somehow built up this humongous amount of anxiety around writing and panic that it all sucks while I'm writing and that's kind of agonising. I think this is true of a lot of people for various people - and I think the same goes for almost any hobby.
Re: betas - I only rarely use betas, because my fandom habits are bizarre and the idea of trying to find a good beta for any fic I was writing makes me want to cry. So by "good beta" do you mean one that's going to do everything for you - grammar, canon, plot development, etc.? Sometimes I use more than one beta for my fic, especially if I know one is good at one aspect, and the other is good at something else.
I love betas who cheerlead, and when I beta, I try to be as encouraging as possible. Not gonna lie, what I love about betaing is getting to be the first to read something new, and being able to take credit for helping it along in anyway I can.
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I think I probably should have prefaced my post with a similar sentiment.
Lengthwise, I spent years and years writing double drabbles and shortfics around 500-1k and then it suddenly blew up. I can barely get a fic under 10k these days and the thing I'm currently working on is so long it's nothing short of ridiculous.
I've found that the more I write... the more I write. I've been writing fic for maybe 15 months now, and most of my earlier stuff is comment fic or stories that top out at 1-2k. I wonder if it's just because of practice or getting more comfortable with writing or what.
I hit *both* "fun" and "agonising" for writing, because writing tends to be fun but I have somehow built up this humongous amount of anxiety around writing and panic that it all sucks while I'm writing and that's kind of agonising.
I think this is true of a lot of people for various people - and I think the same goes for almost any hobby.
Re: betas - I only rarely use betas, because my fandom habits are bizarre and the idea of trying to find a good beta for any fic I was writing makes me want to cry.
So by "good beta" do you mean one that's going to do everything for you - grammar, canon, plot development, etc.? Sometimes I use more than one beta for my fic, especially if I know one is good at one aspect, and the other is good at something else.
I love betas who cheerlead, and when I beta, I try to be as encouraging as possible. Not gonna lie, what I love about betaing is getting to be the first to read something new, and being able to take credit for helping it along in anyway I can.