So, I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months. Most of my writing is done on a 10 year-old laptop I dug out of the closet while I wait for my kid to finish sports practice. Today, the hard-drive died. (Thankfully I have a cloud backup.)

Now, without a laptop, I have nothing to continue working on. I can’t afford a new laptop. Just glad I didn’t lose all my work.

  • MrEff@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I’ve been writing a 175k word One Piece fanfic for about 6 months.

    Imma pause you right there. I’m in the middle of writing a dissertation and from the bottom of my heart struggling to find the words- fuck you. 175k in 6 months? I have good days writing 175 words. Fuck you. I wrote a scifi book that is around 75k words and it took about a year to get the draft done.

    • SidewaysSquid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 days ago

      It’s much easier to write your own version of a copyrighted material than to creatively write on your own. My work is fanfiction based on someone else’s ideas. Yours is all you and I envy that.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I always found fanfic easier to write because someone else did huge amounts of world building for me! I don’t have to describe say, Luffy’s powers because the person reading it ideally watched or read One Piece and knows stuff! Same with prestablished relationships.

        175k is still insane! Best I did was 50k for nanowrimo like a decade ago for the Garrett Investigates fandom.