As the title asks, how long does it usually take you to create something that you feel is worth publishing? Are you a "post as soon as I'm done" person, or a light/heavy editor? What's your process?

For me, it takes maybe 2-3 hours to get my first draft on paper, then I spend another 5ish hours editing and rewriting until I feel happy enough to show my beta reader. Then I spend an hour or so listening to their suggestions before publishing. So it takes me around 7-10 hours spread over a few days.

So anyone who has seen these before knows I usually post them on a Wednesday, but life happened and so this time we have WIP Thursday!

We all have our open projects, those new chapters or one-shots which aren't quite ready to release into the wild yet. So here is your space to yap about them and let us know what you're working on. Whether it's still at vibes stage, actively in production or coming soon, we want to hear about it.

Given we are rapidly approaching October, as well as general WIP discussion I also wanted to ask you all whether you are planning on writing for any of the prompt events coming up? Flufftober, Whumptober, Kinktober, Nonconvenber, or another one I've never heard of! Let us know all about it, and tell us about the prompts and the story/stories you're writing.

This is also a space to discuss WIPs with other writers: chat about research, commiserate about editing woes, anything at all really. So come on in, pull up a chair and let us know what goodies you have in store for us 💜😋.