[quote="FlipMode"]Nah I don't think the time spent on anything is indicative of the quality, you can write a decent piece within a couple of hours if you know what you want to do with it and all that good stuff.
But it's different when you know you only actually have a few hours to write it.[/quote]
Pretty much sums it up. I mean, if you don't even know where you're going when you start then you're kind of screwed in most scenarios. xD I can usually type about 1,000 words for a story in an hour as long as I know what I'm writing... so I could probably write an entry for this contest in two or three. It's when you have no idea what's going on that you're pretty much doomed.
[quote="DGFone"] Hey, I wrote a few winning stories that were written last minute too.
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Eh, no worries.
(I've done the same thing like every time.) XD I mean, I tell myself not to procrastinate, but I don't think I've submitted my entry more than two days before my deadline (ie, the last day I can feasibly work on it) yet. A lot of times I enter mine a few hours after the stories are actually due, and I was the first person to request an extension. So when it comes to procrastinatory behavior, I'm probably at the forefront, whether I like it or not.
[quote="Ninaroja"]Unless you mean rushed in the sense of written in the space of a few hours rather than across a few days, in which case virtually every chapter I've ever uploaded in my fanfiction career would count as rushed
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5.5/7, since that kinda counts halfway (maybe) if you look at it right.
And that kind of explains how you wrote Captive so dang fast. In comparison, I'm that person who publishes a chapter and then waits a week before even starting the next one, writes half the chapter in two hours, dawdles and writes two sentences, waits a few days, writes a bit more, reads and edits a little, adds some more... lalala.
So cramming a whole bunch of writing in at once usually means it comes out... not the way I intended.
by Gemini » September 25th, 2013, 4:31 am 
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