Your Fastest-Written Work

[bi_cathy]

I'm usually a slow writer, but I remember that the first 3 chapters of I'd Go Gay For You only took a few days each to write - probably 5-6 hours total each for 2K-4K words back in the early 2010s.

The fastest writing, though, will go live next week, as the fourth chapter in that series, more than 10 years later. I got the inspiration due to a comment left by a certain fellow writer (not pointing fingers in the vague direction of @THBGato at all), who then convinced me to write it out instead of sitting on the idea until I was done with my current series. After a couple of possessed (that's the correct adjective, trust me) writing hours over 2 days, I had 5K words or so. Fastest my fingers have ever moved... on a keyboard

 

[SmilingLez]

Song lyrics are always the fastest for me to write (arrangement too) I see the music in my head.
YMMV

 

[AStrangeDesire]

The work I just submitted for GeekPride "Found out at the conference" was pantsed in a single day. 2-3 hours of writing, then a walk, then another 3 hours. But that was followed by a lot of editing. And it's 5.5k

Before that my record was four days, from inception, to planning to finish, and came it around 14k, which was for OnTheJob.

 

[WCSGarland]

Be My Concubine

Second entry in Valentine's contest 2025 - not too shabby with respect to rating.

 

[Areala-chan]

Excluding the two 750-word entries, if we're talking short stories, then Four Little Words was a morning shower thought that I blasted out in about two hours and submitted the next evening after an editing pass.

I wrote about this in the WIWAW for it, but Dead Space: Kendra is ~38k words and written, start to finish, in five weeks. Like @HelenL, something that had never happened before and I doubt ever will again. Only time I've ever felt like I violated some rule of causality when banging out a story.

 

[RoyalAuthor]

I was pretty sure I was going to skip the Christmas competition last year. I had no good ideas, and honestly didn't have the time to write, even if I did have some. An idea came to me in the shower a few days before the contest opened, and I started writing. It took two, maybe three days, including revisions, and I had a fully complete 11k-word story that probably needed fewer revisions than most of my work has gone through, and might be one of my best. I've never written a story half that fast, even the ones in my serials that I have plotted out months in advance. Ended up entering the contest day one (sort of, lost most of the day to a site glitch). Felt like I was in a trance the whole time.

The Velvet Ribbon

 

[SugarStorm]

Excluding the two 750-word entries, if we're talking short stories, then Four Little Words was a morning shower thought that I blasted out in about two hours and submitted the next evening after an editing pass.

Please keep showering. I’m saying this entirely for literary reasons.

Four Little Words is in my top three on Lit, which means science now demands further experimentation.

 

[Areala-chan]

Please keep showering. I’m saying this entirely for literary reasons.

Four Little Words is in my top three on Lit, which means science now demands further experimentation.

You just want to see me all naked and wet.

 

[caleb35]

The fastest story for me in terms of writing-revising-posting was my first story, "The Bad Night," and it suffered for it The first draft took a while (even as short as it is) to write but then I immediately launched into revisions and submitted it shortly after that. And it reads like it's rushed too; badly needed more time to bake. I wish I could go back in time and convince my former self to sit on it for two months.

In terms of "oh my god where did all these words come from," I had a sensation like that recently with my latest story "Perfectly Natural." It's my longest story and that's partly because when I was writing it I found that the words didn't stop rushing out; had never really experienced something quite like that before (some days it's easier to write than others, but this was a notch above). My next story, "Kara," also ended up pouring out of me faster than I'd anticipated; I'd sat down to jot a few notes down and very quickly found myself with 3000 words in one day, and then doubled that in a couple more days.

 

[AllenWoody]

Mine was No Means No For Now, which sprang into my head fully formed and I wrote it over two days, IIRC. Usually I bog down in the sex scenes but No Means No was more like a continuous stream of snippets so I never got hung up with overanalysis.

 

[SugarStorm]

You just want to see me all naked and wet.

Haha, I like how @caleb35 immediately went thumbs up. A man of priorities.

Can’t really fault him though. The Power of Titties compels us all!