What are the most submissions you've completed in a year?

[SemiAmateurWordsmith]

I have two submissions so far, I'm adding a third for April Fool's Day, and I'm wondering if I'm going to burn out. This is fun, I'm enjoying myself, and I am only starting to understand stats and scoring and all that.

Saying that, one needs data to have fun tracking and evaluating the data. Three stories might not be enough to play with numbers.

What's the largest number of stories you published in a year? I'm curious at the volume of people on here. Sure, 50 stories is a lot to have but over the past 20 years that isn't as productive as it sounds.

Do all ya'll crank out work after work after work or are you more easy-paced? I'm really curious.

Thanks!

 

[SimonDoom]

I published 14 stories in 2017, my first full year as an author here, counting separately published chapters as stories. That was by far my most prolific year. My productivity has been much slower since then.

 

[Shuntwell]

I think you're asking a very broad question since story length varies so much, from 750 words to 20k in some cases. Personally I only joined recently and have four stories up, two this year. They go from 3K, 5K, 10K and 15K. Like you I'm still trying to figure the optimal length and frequency for publishing stories.

 

[Bamagan]

I posted 100 stories my first year here... I arranged number 100 to go live on the anniversary of the first. That being said, there are a couple of caveats.
First, many of my stories were relatively short, taking up only a single Lit page. The total word count, however, was around 450k, so it wasn't like they were all skirting the minimum length.
Second, the one novel-length series that accounted for 52 of those 100 entries was largely done (at least in draft form) before I ever started posting it, as were a few of my other entries.
At a very rough guess, I'd say I wrote around 300k 'new' words between Jul 2023 and July 2024. My output since then has been considerably less.

 

[NoTalentHack]

I published 52 works in 52 weeks my first year here. Never, ever trying that again. Also, one was an audio version of a story I’d already published, read by a friend, so that’s a bit of a cheat.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Fifteen in 2021, my first year back here. I've done nine already this year, but seven are 750s.

 

[sinfantasy]

I started in Sep last year and have 10 stories and 3 poems published so far. The total text size is around 650 KB (122k + words). I plan to participate in all events for the year so maybe 20 or more stories this year.

Don't be stressed. It's all good as long as you are having fun writing.

 

[SimonDoom]

I published 52 works in 52 weeks my first year here. Never, ever trying that again. Also, one was an audio version of a story I’d already published, read by a friend, so that’s a bit of a cheat.

I'm amazed by that. I cannot imagine. That's almost 4 times the productivity of my most productive year.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Do all ya'll crank out work after work after work or are you more easy-paced? I'm really curious.

Thanks!

My productivity has been fairly consistent over ten years - around 10k words a month. One year I took ten months to write a 104k novel, with two shorter side projects as some relief. This last year or two, my word count has probably increased, but not all of it gets published.

I don't think "story count" on its own is meaningful though, since stories or chapters can have significantly different page counts. A word count means something, whereas a story or chapter count doesn't mean much at all.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've published 64 stories (including chapters as separate stories) in 8 years, so about 8 stories a year. But 9 of them are 750-word stories, all published since 2020, so my pace definitely slowed after an initial flurry.

But if you had told me back in 2016, when I started, that I would have published 64 erotic stories in 8 years, I wouldn't have believed it. I had not written a single page of creative fiction in over 30 years at that point. So it's all personal and relative.

 

[mirafrida]

Jeepers! I think of 5 stories in a year being a strong effort

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I thought 2020 would have been my most productive year - I had bad Covid and scribbled away in a drugged daze for months. 18 works, including 14 chapters of a complete novel of 110k words, one 750 words, the others 10-20k.

But actually I published more in 2022 - three chapters are actually the above novel minus the gay sex but a better beginning, then there's 7 chapters of Educating Laura, which I'd started writing in 2020. Plus some original stories and again, one 750. Last two years haven't been as prolific, though I have two long drafts I may get out soon. Or not. One was intended for April Fool last year...

 

[bumpercars]

Eight stories in a year is my high-water mark so far. I've been writing here since 2017 and I'm just shy of fifty stories. I don't want to burn myself out by pushing too hard, and I've skirted that point recently as it is.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

41 since October of last year, one pending. Just passed the 600k word mark.

 

[glynndah]

About five or six a year.

 

[StillStunned]

I did 24 in 2023, and 27 in 2024, and so far 4 this year.

But 2023 was only the five months from September to December. I was incredibly productive then. I was writing a 6-8k word story every week or so.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

20 in 2024 but eight of those were 750 word stories. 2023, I published 15, but I try to publish about once a month, so...
I've published 5 this year with 3 being 750 worders and have one pending.

 

[MrStill]

I seem to average about a story a month. Although I go through periods of rapid publishing and periods where nothing gets finished.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

Sixteen submissions in 2010, my first full year on Lit.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I think 27 my first full year, but can hardly boast of literary merit in any of them, short strokers mainly. Meh - I learned from them.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

I haven't even been here a full year, so may not be qualified to weigh in. I have 14 stories submitted currently, though it's unclear how many more I have in me, lol. It's entirely possible I've posted just about everything I set out to. But I stick to no schedule or goals and just post whenever inspiration hits.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

2022 and 2023 both saw 7 stories published here. The average word count per story for these years was 66,000.

This isn't my only publishing endeavor, and this site only sees those stories that are suited for it (i.e.: free).

 

[krystalg]

I used to write on a different site, and would publish an average of three stories per week. However, I tend to write and edit quickly. No matter how much you write or how often you publish, the fact that you do is what's both amazing and important.

 

[PapaRomantic]

In 2023, I published 19 works, but that's very misleading because 16 of those were all part of one series in the Romance category, and the length of each chapter was between 1900 words and 6,000 words.

Probably my highest percentage of prolific publication came when I first started publishing and was enjoying the tremendous high I discovered when people enjoyed reading my stories. I first published on October 6, 2016, and between then and the end of the year, I published 12 works. That could never have sustained that pace for very long, but it was quite a rush turning out stories as fast as I could.

Conversely, I published a story in August of 2019 and didn't publish again until February of 2022. Hot and cold, maybe? Covid? I don't really know what it was that stopped me for such a long time.

 

[Northstar4695]

Just 5. I struggle to find the time. Sometimes I go for weeks without writing. Always happy when I get back to it