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.
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If it’s just the hard drive and you have a screwdriver on hand, SATA SSDs are extremely cheap. You can get 256GB in the US for $20-$25.
This is the answer here. If OP has any techy friends they should tell them. I have a dozen HDDs and SSDs and RAM of varying sizes lying around. Most of them even work.
I tend to canabalize parts as computers pass through my hands. I frequently upgrade family member’s laptops for them. They buy the parts and I provide the labor of cloning windows and putting in the parts. Often the brand new (but smaller) ram/ssd are unwanted.
It’s the OS license that’s the main problem.
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.
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.
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.
I wrote a too-long 300K Avatar fanfic! And I’m low key writing another!
Would recommend.
I dunno if you are already doing this, but you should publish it one chapter at a time. It will get way more visibility, and create more feedback as you write.
And there are relatively affordable ways to get the laptop it working again, or get writing on a phone via a usb keyboard or something like that. You’ve come to the right forum!
I just published to AO3. I put up about a dozen chapters because the format is better if you upload the story arcs together. No feedback yet, but my kid likes it, which is great
Awesome! I know nothing of One Piece, so probably can’t give any useful feedback, but may read some time anyway.
Though be aware you may not get a ton of comments. I suspect Ao3 readers are generally into shorter-form stuff (and smut) these days, and I’ve been told some would-be commenters are ‘afraid’ of antagonizing the authors, more or less.
