Speed vs. Quality

[sarillia]

Another post inspired by a conversation over on fandomsecrets

How much do you think your writing speed influences the quality of your writing?

It seems to be general knowledge that if you write too quickly then quality will suffer. I haven't really noticed that in my own writing. If I push myself, I can write 4,000 words in an hour and it's not the mess that people picture when I tell them that. I fix typos, I go back and replace sentences I don't like, I do all the things I do when I'm writing just 1,000 words in an hour (a pace that feels very slow to me). I'm just more focused and I do it more quickly.

Have you noticed a difference in what you produce at different speeds?

Comments

[lunabee34]

Some of my most popular shorter fics (1000-5000 words) I banged out in a hour or two. For me, I don't think it's how quickly I write, I think it's the strength of the original idea I get. Sometimes I get an idea for a fic and the plot's all there and the characterization and it just flows out of me very quickly. Other times I get a plot point or a line of dialogue or a cool character revelation and then I have to spend all this time figuring out how to get there or make it happen. And that takes much longer. But you know, I don't think I necessarily notice any quality difference.