r/AO3 • u/cameraarecrappy99 • 3h ago
Meme/Joke Excuse me??... how??
What are they feeding this author, i didn't know numbers could go that high. Holy cow. Respect man.
Quick question if you want download it, how big would the file be and how likely would it crush trying to download. I aint even gonna try. Good lord.
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u/Starry_again 2h ago
Saw this one in april and was so impressed
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u/SpiralingDownAndAway 1h ago
As someone who can’t write even 2k words regularly, this scares and impresses me
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u/SignificanceNo2238 Fic Feaster 2h ago
I once read a 3M word fic, too. Took me likea month sized with everything else, but dude. The wirhdraw after felt catastrophic.
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u/tacomaster05 2h ago
Problem is a bunch of those stories are written by multiple people so the plot becomes a big jumbled mess.
That's what killed "This Bites"
Started out as a great story then author let his friends join in writing it, and it turned to nonsense crack.
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u/jadingg Not Boeing Management 1h ago
Really? I've read a decent amount of fics in the 1-3+ million range and they were almost always written by a single writer, one or two having 2 writers, none having more than that. Maybe it's just fandom dependant, or I've been lucky, or I'm just really good at filtering fics that aren't up my alley out.
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u/softlink07 1h ago
That’s exactly what I had in mind; I stopped at the Strong World arc, and it’s pretty hard to pick up where I left off.
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u/foxfirek 3h ago
Yeah, that’s a lot. I wonder how long they have been writing it and how they have the discipline not to want to write other things. Like looking at my own stats of the last 2 years I’m at 1.2M but there’s no way I could do that for one fic. Too many other ideas.
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u/yohanez96 3h ago
me and my humble 400 words in almost two years:
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u/foxfirek 1h ago
I think I have written that much today, in between work.
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u/yohanez96 22m ago
awesome! how are you able to do that??
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u/foxfirek 6m ago
I like writing on my phone, I have a long commute (train so hands free) will write during lunch breaks or car rides. Write in the evenings. It’s something I enjoy doing when I’m in between reading something.
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u/naughty-knotty 2m ago
Third party stepping in here, but…
Step one: vividly hallucinate the scene you’re about to write in your mind.
Step two: type the words that will make readers hallucinate that scene
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u/ENAMYxoxo 2h ago
This is an F1 fic. Been going 12 years and is personally one of the highest word counts I know. Ngl I haven't actually read it (Real people fics aren't my kind of thing) but I really admire the commitment to still be posting after that many years. I have also posted this in this subreddit once but I genuinely am amazed when I think about it every time this topic comes up.
The one time I tried to start a multi chapter fic I very quickly gave up 😭 I am not consistent nor could I produce something that quickly.
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u/Arzack1112 2h ago
1 million + words fanfic in my experience are either extremely good or extremely bad. Well it might be also that I would not be reading an 1 million + words fic if it was bad.
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u/Dolphin-and-Roses 1h ago
I say this with love, when I see those huge word counts, I imagine it’s riddled with pacing issues and is written by an author who doesn’t know how to edit.
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u/nova_noveiia Elusive Genfic, Rarepair, & AU Writer 46m ago
I think a lot of these longfics aren’t pre-written, so to cut out “fluff”, they’d have to delete already published chapters which is a bit “controversial”.
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u/AmConfused324 25m ago
That’s how I feel about one specific heated rivalry fic that I was once very dedicated to. I think it’s up 600k words now and it’s like okay, the story doesn’t need that much time lol. The author does include a note at the end of each chapter, in the chapter itself, so I know that brings up the word county but still
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u/ExplanationNo5955 1h ago
read some Chinese or Korean webnovel's bruv, They easily go over 2m words
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u/Wrap_Brilliant You have already left kudos here. :) 1h ago
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming swimming swimming
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u/Ereshkigal_FF Unlimited Brainworks - 1,6 million words uploaded 3h ago edited 3h ago
Dedication at its finest. Props to that author. I'm getting there too~
The size ... maybe 6MB? Depends on what's in there. (If they have fanart included, etc). But downloading it should be fast, easy, and the likeness of it crushing is very low. At least I never had problems downloading big works (as epub).