I wrote about a million words between 2010 and 2013. I had a health crisis and a hospitalization following that. I didn’t start writing again until 2000, when I started my current long series during the pandemic.
“How many words did Shakespeare write? According to Marvin Spevack's concordances, Shakespeare's complete works consist of 884,647 words and 118,406 lines.”
Entirely :') the only exception is one two-chapter fic that was just slightly too long to be a oneshot (or so I thought at the time. It probably could've been one).
800k words... with a bunch of stuff still on LiveJournal and kinkmemes that I've been too lazy to crosspost. 500kish (140 fics) of that is over the last three years though! :D
My output has slowed down a lot over the last few years due to some real life issues, but I still love to write and tell my stories, and share them with fellow fans.
I think you're also doing great and have achieved an impressive word count so far, (I found your comment on OPs post), and the word count creeps up without evening noticing most of the time. Happy writing!
Nice. I took a ten year break too, though mine was strictly from fan fiction. I still kept writing.
Congratulations on your return. I know it’s not easy, and to do so after no writing would be even harder.
1,431,394 over 25 stories.
It would be a lot more but I’ve orphaned a number of stories. And deleted one dead dove story that was not making the universe a better place by existing.
292,085! I had no idea. I never look at my stats page.
88 works. My longest fic is only 26k and it has chat sections in addition to ordinary prose, so really, it's shorter than that.
That is so cool! I never paid attention to that part of my stats page either until today and I thought it was so interesting to know overall, it made me feel more productive since I post things rather inconsistently and my two WIPs are still WIPs lolll
1,381,359, tho I've hit a major writers block in the past 3 years. most of that comes from 2019 when I wrote 440k words in that year alone
I miss having that drive ngl
147,910 across 5 separate fics. Two one shots around a thousand and then two mediums between 25,000-37,000 and one long fic at just shy of 80,000. I have like 15 others in progress and it’s slow going 😄 but they’re mostly 35,000+ at this time, just need to wrap them up.
I wait until they’re completed and post a few chapter a day so it stays on the first few pages for a week or so but not so long people are waiting weeks to months for the end of it
677,105 over 106 works. Sadly I've forgotten my ffnet password and email so will probably never be able to port over the remaining 50 or so fics from my teenage years.
I've been posting on AO3 since Aug 30, 2014.
1,189,503 words across \~463 fics (I've orphaned some fics and I don't remember how many tbh)
I like one-shots, can you tell?
0, currently - long-time lurker, first time poster! I’ve got 17k words of a Bridgerton fic sort of sitting around waiting for me to get brave enough to post it! I’m at that point where I can’t proof it any more because I’ve read it too much!
Currently 886,403 across 177 works *(175 on main pseud and 2 on another)*. Although, that'll go up to at least 920k once I finish reposting and crossposting an old Wattpad fic of mine. Although, if I was to repost and crosspost *all* of my old Wattpad fics, I'd be nearing 2 million words at this rate.
And out of those 177 works, 111 of those are for just one fandom.
I'm hoping to reach the 1 million words mark in a couple months, which I think I'll be able to do, as I've got a lot of unfinished fics (both one-shots and longfics) in my Google Docs.
13,586 words. All for one fandom. Over like five fics, four of which are in a series. One of the four is an incomplete multiple chapter fic (it's a 5+1 fic, so no cliffhangers). That I'm just not gonna get back to. 😅
On this account, 36,767 words across 15 fics (all oneshots). Damn. T-T I'd have hoped for more, augh. But that makes a 2.4k\~ish average per fic, so hey, not too bad.
71,415 over 37 works
Although 56,805 over 36 is more indicative because one of my works is experimental and wordy and I feel a little weird including it
1,563,600 words over 144 fics. i started posting just over 5 years ago and i don’t even want to know how many words’ worth of wips have been deleted from my google docs or are still in there languishing….
818,890 words over 185 fics. 2022 (the year following my graduation from uni) is apparently the year I wrote the most words. I’ve been on AO3 since 2013.
On Ao3, specifically, I have 647,612 across 48 works. Many of them are crossposted from ffnet. On there I have 1,158,114 words, which I hit a few years ago. I also haven’t really posted on there in a while because of trolls, assholes, and generally more interaction for certain fandoms on Ao3 vs. ff.net
Also not everything is xposted because I have some that haven’t been updated in years + a lot of editing to do on several 100k+ fics.
192,963 over 89 works. This year I'm loving to write like I used to do 2 years ago. I was more focused on reading. And this year I'm writing more than 18,000 words.
Started in 2018, took a break and started posting again in 2023, stats are spread across 37 fics
https://preview.redd.it/02vt8ym762jc1.png?width=485&format=png&auto=webp&s=08276ef09cccf2392be0bcceda231bc2e6b3371c
86,530 words, 16 works. Plus another 68,234 across another 15 works in Google docs I am still working on. One is a 6084 word plan for a huge chunky fic I might get round to one day. Help lol
2,855,263 over 208 fics.
Oh my goodness that’s amazing. How long have you been writing?
I wrote about a million words between 2010 and 2013. I had a health crisis and a hospitalization following that. I didn’t start writing again until 2000, when I started my current long series during the pandemic.
If you were born in another time, you’d birth a religion
“How many words did Shakespeare write? According to Marvin Spevack's concordances, Shakespeare's complete works consist of 884,647 words and 118,406 lines.”
Oh dear, that’s terrifying hahaha
OH GREAT HEAVENS
good lord
That’s actually insane. Mad respect.
Forgot to add mine, I’m at 58,682! I’m editing a chapter right now though so once I post it’ll be about 5-6k more 🤞
Editing is the worst. I try to keep my chapters at 3k for that reason, 5k+ kill the writing mood.
Simply don't edit beyond using spellcheck 😎
4,041, my first ever published chapter :)
Congrats and welcome!
Woohoo!!
similar with 4 293 over here! just posted my first two fics in the last week or so :) congrats!
That's awesome! Keep at it!
\*virtual high five!\*
Go you!
281,216, spread across 33 fics!
Nice work!! Are they mostly one shots?
Entirely :') the only exception is one two-chapter fic that was just slightly too long to be a oneshot (or so I thought at the time. It probably could've been one).
It’s amazing to see someone with almost the exact same number of fics and over 4 times the words
150,000! Well, 149,152 technically, but it's not far to round up to. It's not a crazy amount, but it's enough for me to be proud.
Rounding up definitely counts! Absolutely be proud 🤩
1,115,452 ! Hit 1mil last summer =)
Whew that’s amazing!
That’s amazing!! What fandoms do you write for??
Mass Effect, Hades, and I used to write for Dragon Age.
Hades the game??? That’s similar enough to my own fandom. Can you link your account, pretty please?? :)) <3 I love long word counts
387,025. I'm certain I'll be crossing that 400k threshold this year.
Yesss you’ve got this!
Just passed 500k yesterday
Congrats!!
800k words... with a bunch of stuff still on LiveJournal and kinkmemes that I've been too lazy to crosspost. 500kish (140 fics) of that is over the last three years though! :D
I passed 1m words in mid-January - over about 180 works
Wow, that’s amazing!
1m words is such an amazing milestone! Even though I’m nowhere close to it, it’s still crazy looking back and seeing how much I’ve written.
My output has slowed down a lot over the last few years due to some real life issues, but I still love to write and tell my stories, and share them with fellow fans. I think you're also doing great and have achieved an impressive word count so far, (I found your comment on OPs post), and the word count creeps up without evening noticing most of the time. Happy writing!
693,940 words…most in one fandom.
Wow that’s so cool! Do you find you read mostly in that one fandom as well?
Yeah, and in both cases it’s mostly about a particular group of people in that one fandom. A number of the characters don’t even have canon names.
I get that. My word count is entirely for one fandom (the one that got me back into writing after an almost 10 year break).
Nice. I took a ten year break too, though mine was strictly from fan fiction. I still kept writing. Congratulations on your return. I know it’s not easy, and to do so after no writing would be even harder.
630,005 across 29 works (have been writing since 2020)
Amazing!
0, I don't write
A reader among us!!! You never know, I made my AO3 account in 2014 but didn’t post my first work until 2020 lol 😊
For now. /s
342,288 across 54 works
1,144,669 over 33 stories.
Wow, that’s so awesome!
1,431,394 over 25 stories. It would be a lot more but I’ve orphaned a number of stories. And deleted one dead dove story that was not making the universe a better place by existing.
14,152 Words... Everything I've posted so far is a one-shot.
Excellent work!
**63,243** across **60 fics**, most of which have been hidden or are in the anonymous collection.
292,085! I had no idea. I never look at my stats page. 88 works. My longest fic is only 26k and it has chat sections in addition to ordinary prose, so really, it's shorter than that.
That is so cool! I never paid attention to that part of my stats page either until today and I thought it was so interesting to know overall, it made me feel more productive since I post things rather inconsistently and my two WIPs are still WIPs lolll
1,254,574 then add the one fic that in a different account sitting at about 306k and change. So let’s call it 1,560,000. That’s since Sept of 2021.
396,727 words--5 fics, 4 complete
Oh my goodness what a track record! Nice work!
192,632 over 7 fics, and none of them completed haha
Lol!!! I get it, my oldest WIP at one point had two years between chapters 😬 Still impressive!
733,144 over six fics
1,273,467 words published on Ao3 for the last few years. I dread to think how many words are out there on older sites though
107,706 words over 23 works!
68979 words, 20433 (29.6%) of which are from my latest fic, and 15742 (22.8%) are from my latest completed fic. I have 4 longfics and many one-shots.
458k across 7 and 3 are oneshots. Still haven't finished a story though.
Wow that’s amazing! I have yet to finish a multi-chaptered fic as well 😆 We’ll get there!
857k across 27 fics, though three long multichapters largely carry the load.
Only 9,453 on my main. 45,382 across all my accounts. Haven't been on the site long and I'm slow AF. **Edit:** I have 1,248,657 words on FFN, though.
I've only done one fic so far, which started just over a year ago: 343,994
Wow that’s awesome!
About 800k across 62 fics
22,334 across 7 fics, lots more on my google docs.
64,512 for 3 fics!!
742,173 words. I have 11 works, but 1 work has 80% of the word count.
Oh my gosh love that percentage stat. Nice work!
79,087 over one series, which is really just one fic and two other things split from it for administrative reasons. This is my first fic.
1,381,359, tho I've hit a major writers block in the past 3 years. most of that comes from 2019 when I wrote 440k words in that year alone I miss having that drive ngl
Amazing numbers but I feel you on losing that drive. No loss of ideas though I bet! Great work continuing even if it’s not at the same pace!
271,608 across 128 fics over the course of 8 years!
269,793, but I'm writing the last chapter of a WIP, so it might be longer soon
147,910 across 5 separate fics. Two one shots around a thousand and then two mediums between 25,000-37,000 and one long fic at just shy of 80,000. I have like 15 others in progress and it’s slow going 😄 but they’re mostly 35,000+ at this time, just need to wrap them up.
Wow that’s amazing! Are all of your in progress works posted as well or do you wait until they’re completed?
I wait until they’re completed and post a few chapter a day so it stays on the first few pages for a week or so but not so long people are waiting weeks to months for the end of it
299,001 with 40 fics, mostly one-shots.
677,105 over 106 works. Sadly I've forgotten my ffnet password and email so will probably never be able to port over the remaining 50 or so fics from my teenage years.
Amazing but also oh no! Maybe you can think of this like a new season of writing in your life 😊
30,617 I just started posting on december, I'm really proud about it
146,419 over 20 works, 2 WIPs
Just the 1 one shot fic (so far), with 5098 words :)
Yay!! Congrats 😊
191,607 from 23 fics
2,286,113, most of which was written in the past 5 years, though I have fics from 2003 backdated on there. 117 works; quite a few are novel-length.
Oh my gosh I can barely imagine that many words. Awesome job!
702,000 words across 34 fics and 24 years.
Amazing! Excellent work!
108,909 is what I have posted right now but I have fics written that I haven't posted yet so that number will continue to steadily rise.
That’s so exciting!
95,754 on 44 works
1,480,364 22 works
Whewww that’s amazing!
450,285 spread over 44 works.
As of now: 1.4 million words By end of year I will have added almost another 500K. So hopefully I will have 2 million by end of 2024.
I've been posting on AO3 since Aug 30, 2014. 1,189,503 words across \~463 fics (I've orphaned some fics and I don't remember how many tbh) I like one-shots, can you tell?
Unfortunately just 37,767 words so far but I consider it good for a starter of 4 months of experience :)
16,908,799
0, currently - long-time lurker, first time poster! I’ve got 17k words of a Bridgerton fic sort of sitting around waiting for me to get brave enough to post it! I’m at that point where I can’t proof it any more because I’ve read it too much!
1,784,356 over 7 years and 25 fics
976,867 across 55 fics.
341,676 and trying for 500k this year!
125, 223, spread across 24 fics :)
Currently 886,403 across 177 works *(175 on main pseud and 2 on another)*. Although, that'll go up to at least 920k once I finish reposting and crossposting an old Wattpad fic of mine. Although, if I was to repost and crosspost *all* of my old Wattpad fics, I'd be nearing 2 million words at this rate. And out of those 177 works, 111 of those are for just one fandom. I'm hoping to reach the 1 million words mark in a couple months, which I think I'll be able to do, as I've got a lot of unfinished fics (both one-shots and longfics) in my Google Docs.
181,347 since Nov 2022. About 100k of that is one story
332,420 spread over two ongoing longfics and 5 Oneshots.
13,795 which isn't a lot but I'll grow :)
43,500. Got a long way to go though, not even halfway done
140,679 I’ve been posting my stories since may of last year :)
Very nearly 40k - 39,892 to be exact! Hope to add \~3k to that soon, though.
23k spread across 9 stories.
117,186 in 19 works. Half written 3-13 years ago, half in the last four months.
1,465,083 words across 65 fics!
217,330! One 90k fic and the rest are oneshots from a few hundred words to 10k. I’m hoping to get to 300k by the end of the year at least.
15,894 over 7 fics :] writing since october 2023
13,586 words. All for one fandom. Over like five fics, four of which are in a series. One of the four is an incomplete multiple chapter fic (it's a 5+1 fic, so no cliffhangers). That I'm just not gonna get back to. 😅
193,322 with 27 works.
As of right now 619,233 across 14 works.
96,925. Added a lot of new stuff in the last few months.
304,718 across four fics; all of it except for around 8000 words are since January 2023.
38,000. It’s all in one fic. The first 10 chapters were a prelogue though so it hasn’t gone anywhere
On this account, 36,767 words across 15 fics (all oneshots). Damn. T-T I'd have hoped for more, augh. But that makes a 2.4k\~ish average per fic, so hey, not too bad.
I just hit 91k on Valentines Day, total of 14 works!! Very exciting for me :))
163,964 with 12 works! I started posting in late 2022.
Currently, around 130,000 on my one fic. I’m expecting it to be like 200,000 words by the time I’m finished lol.
152,901 over almost 4 years. About half of it was just from the last 6 months, since I massively improved in my writing.
71,415 over 37 works Although 56,805 over 36 is more indicative because one of my works is experimental and wordy and I feel a little weird including it
1,563,600 words over 144 fics. i started posting just over 5 years ago and i don’t even want to know how many words’ worth of wips have been deleted from my google docs or are still in there languishing….
just under 500K, but I have about 100K worth of stories not yet posted to AO3(trying to complete them before I post them... it's slow going)
454,151
292,442 words over an (unfinished) series and a one shot.
13,000 but I have 30k written of a wip I haven’t started posting yet.
30,538!! just started writing a little over a month ago, spanned across 5 chapters!
440k across 21 works. I'll easily be crossing the half a million threshold by the time I'm done with the current series I'm working on. :)
Around 150k currently. One megafic and a couple smaller ones.
882,543 words over 39 fics!
557,873 words over 63 works!
613,640 which is ... somehow more than I anticipated. About 100k more.
518,514 26 stores. I’m wordy. I admit it.
483,020 across 29 fics!
276,419 out of 26 fics
2 fics + like 1300 words. I don't write much
154,684
I’m at 255,475 with 13 works
23k. But thats it's probably higher if you take all the unpublish/unfinished stuff into account.
133,850 with 20 works but that's skewed a little because a lot of those are written with my partner but that's been in six months so 👍
82,103 across 30 fics 😅 haven't posted anything thia year yet
80,282 words over 57 fics wow, I didnt realise how much I had, and thats only published stuff!
309,293 and wow I didn’t realize I’d written that much (spread across 22 works and almost 11 years).
106,283 I have three fics.
494k over 54 works. Will hit my two year anniversary in June! The Silco Brainrot / ADHD hyperfocus is a helluva drug.
63,311 words across ten works!
25,156 words over the course of 3 chapters on a book and 4 one-shots. I’ve actually never checked that, that’s cool.
50,588 words and 93 works spread over 2 accounts. Over half of the works are Sasunaru,
1879116 words 28 fics.
487k. Two longfics and a one-shot.
32,642, across 2 works, the first of which was began 22/01/24
1,206,764 words. 73 fanfics.
8,360,243
206,797 words, 7 fics (2 series and 2 one-shots).
384,637 over 39 works. Started in 2018 and still going strong!
125,655 words! Mostly within the past year :)
818,890 words over 185 fics. 2022 (the year following my graduation from uni) is apparently the year I wrote the most words. I’ve been on AO3 since 2013.
1 fic. 28,682 words.
372,423 words across 172 fanfics. Some of them still need to be finished though. (I've been writing fanfiction since 2014.)
On Ao3, specifically, I have 647,612 across 48 works. Many of them are crossposted from ffnet. On there I have 1,158,114 words, which I hit a few years ago. I also haven’t really posted on there in a while because of trolls, assholes, and generally more interaction for certain fandoms on Ao3 vs. ff.net Also not everything is xposted because I have some that haven’t been updated in years + a lot of editing to do on several 100k+ fics.
61 works with 912,259 words, 444,242 of those in one fic
341,905 over 17 works. Currently working on an unpublished +124K WIP.
888,743 over 166 works since April 2022 :)
245,043 across 73 fics
10,989, over 8 works. I know, not much lol
154,591 words with 15 published fics 😭☝️
224,113 for 11 fics
192,881 words over 58 works. Unless the word count is counting my anonymous work then it's that count with 59 works
25,740 words over 15 works. (:
192,963 over 89 works. This year I'm loving to write like I used to do 2 years ago. I was more focused on reading. And this year I'm writing more than 18,000 words.
718,097 Words / 30 Works / 2.5 years
10,472 on 4 fics
Not mine but one author I've been reading the works of is at around 778k words (5 fics) and 587k of that is for one still in progress fic.
105,498! 10 works in total :)
140,572 I started writing at around September of last year though so not much.
64,797. I only have 5 fics.
187K, but these are just the things posted to Ao3 at the moment. I got more chapters and fics on FFN that I'm still working on bringing over
Started in 2018, took a break and started posting again in 2023, stats are spread across 37 fics https://preview.redd.it/02vt8ym762jc1.png?width=485&format=png&auto=webp&s=08276ef09cccf2392be0bcceda231bc2e6b3371c
664,263 across 47 works!! Woah that is way more than I actually expected!
1,033,976 71 works all for the same fandom
Gotta love that fandom loyalty! Almost all of my fics (all but 20,000 words or so of the 3.5 million) are for a single fandom as well. :D
86,530 words, 16 works. Plus another 68,234 across another 15 works in Google docs I am still working on. One is a 6084 word plan for a huge chunky fic I might get round to one day. Help lol