Writing is Ridiculous and I have the hiccups again

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There’s a story I was writing for Shadowhunters about the AU versions of Alec and Magnus that takes place in the club where they first meet. I started the story, got so far and trashed it. Then I started over, got so far and then trashed it. I started over AGAIN wrote the whole thing to the conclusion, began to edit it and just generally hated it. It took me nearly the entire month of April to do that, not to mention that I started it at the end of March. I have worked on that story for 35 days. And okay, that’s not a terribly long time to work on a story, I guess, except for the part where the story is only 1,700 words long. It was an excruciating process, and I still hate the story. Reb, darling that she is, was trying to help me edit it (bless her), and I was looking over her suggestions and generally hating the story when another story hit me upside the head. I didn’t have all the details but I knew how I wanted it to start and I had an idea of how I wanted it to go and I decent idea of how I wanted it to end. So I decided to ignore the edits I needed to do to post the Shadowhunters story in time to call it my “April Story” for my goal of posting one story per month this year and write this other story. 

 

I wrote the other story in less than 48 hours. I’ve done some more editing today and will probably need to do a little more before I post it to AO3 for more easily accessible mass consumption, but it still startles me that it can take over a month to write 1,700 words and then I can end up taking less than two days to write 2,200. How does that make any sense? 

I'm so tired today. It's been a long day. I got up to work out with dad this morning, and then I took a nap after my shower before I went to work, but I stayed up late finishing and posting that story and then got up so early to go to the gym. Even with the nap, it was still a long day with a lot going on. 

And now I have another story I want to write, but we'll see how it goes. I can't write much tonight anyway since I should've gone to bed ages ago.