How do some authors pump out 15+ chapters a week?

[BearlyAlive]

No sex, much drugs, and Rock'n'Roll (or whatever music you use to write)

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Carefully.

 

[Navillus]

Backlogs.

Magic.

The ability to shapeshift.

3 pairs of arms.

3 heads.

And finally an Iron will.

 

[lambenttyto]

That means they're either writing and editing 2 chapters a day or somehow storing up dozens upon dozens of the things to drop super consistently. What's the secret?

What exactly is a chapter? I have some stories where the chapters are five thousand or more words, while I have other stories that have chapters as short as three or four hundred words.

 

[Deleted member 166076]

What exactly is a chapter? I have some stories where the chapters are five thousand or more words, while I have other stories that have chapters as short as three or four hundred words.

? That's a really good point! My chapters are always 1k-2k words long, so if we both wrote 20k words, that'd be 10+ chapters for me versus 4 for you. Much easier to write a "ton" of chapters if they're shorter.

 

[melchi]

Carefully

 

[lambenttyto]

? That's a really good point! My chapters are always 1k-2k words long, so if we both wrote 20k words, that'd be 10+ chapters for me versus 4 for you. Much easier to write a "ton" of chapters if they're shorter.

Presumably. Most of the stuff I write is on the shorter side when it comes to chapters. I write a lot of these crazy stories with twenty viewpoint characters that jump around all over the place.

 

[prognastat]

I mean it takes me about 2 hours on average to write a 1000 word chapter. If I’m really on a roll I might even manage it in 1 hour. So if I were to do writing like a fulltime job I could theoretically probably pull off around 20 chapters a week with a 40 hour work week.

Of course that’s theoretical since I have to assume I wouldn’t be able to remain as productive per minute spent if I was writing 4 chapters a day as now when I write like one maybe two a day. I suspect if I really did do it full time it probably would be more like the 13-14 chapters a week in 40 hours which falls close to the amount you mentioned.

Also something I didn’t see ementioned, but translators. A lot of the ones pumping out a bunch of chapters a day are translators too since it takes a lot less effort to machine translate(and maybe some editing if they are putting in effort)

 

[LuoirM]

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[Fox-Trot-9]

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[SirDogeTheFirst]

You know you can do that too for a very small price of your soul. Just draw a pentagram on the floor with chalk, put candles on corners and sacrifice a chinese webnovel writer.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Getting into a writing habit

 

[Sylver]

It's possible. I myself was at one point writing one 2k-3k word length chapter every night consistently for 9 months at a different website. Here on scribblehub, I was able to accomplish that for January and the first week of February before the new semester began.

I can see authors managing this with discipline, scheduling, and especially a motivational factor be it the audience support, feedback, or source of revenue.

 

[HypnoticNovels]

I can barely do 2k words within 2 weeks I'm an unbelievably slow writer. I admire those who can even reliably do 500 words a day lol. Overthinking is my downfall and procrastination is my curse.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Write 1 long chapter of 2000-3000 word of actual content and plot, then separate them by 10-15 to produce chapter.

After that, fill each those 200-300 word with fillers and non-plot content that are dont actually affect the plot until you reach the minimum amount of word required to post a chapter.

Writing plot is hard, but writing nonsense of your comment toward the world and nonsense non plot event is quite easy.

 

[KonoKei]

Write 1 long chapter of 2000-3000 word of actual content and plot, then separate them by 10-15 to produce chapter.

After that, fill each those 200-300 word with fillers and non-plot content that are dont actually affect the plot until you reach the minimum amount of word required to post a chapter.

Writing plot is hard, but writing nonsense of your comment toward the world and nonsense non plot event is quite easy.

I've been reading a few stories on here that produce that quickly and this seems to be the case. I don't want to point out specifics because I'm not here to lampoon anyone, but there is a distinct point where quantity outweighs quality. Yet the audience for these things is huge, so they must be doing something right for someone.

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

I've been reading a few stories on here that produce that quickly and this seems to be the case. I don't want to point out specifics because I'm not here to lampoon anyone, but there is a distinct point where quantity outweighs quality. Yet the audience for these things is huge, so they must be doing something right for someone.

Can't blame them too much.

Reading story that consistently posting lots of chapter is more preferable than reading story full of content yet only post chapters inconsistently.

The experience of reading stories that are consistent feel like an addicting daily-weekly ritual.

After the reqders get hooked to the story, Consistency is quite important than absolute top quality, even if the quality standard would be lowered significantly.