Both of my stories are about 17/18k words by now, and both are unfinished with absolutely NO IDEA how long they'll last or how they'll end, so I'm aiming for about 40k just to limit myself...
Also your rythm is awesome! I updated everyday for a month, but now that the contest is over I'm updating every other day and find it a lot easier. But I see a lot of authors updating once or twice a week so idk what's best...
This is why we started working on an entire world! We get bored on something? Go to a different area we haven't touched and create something. Then we can jump around and create whatever we're in the mood for. Mechs? Sure, work on Delfora, then. Magic? Have some dude studying in Crexroth Spire in the ocean. Skating? Mess with the Concrete City.
We're just now learning about stuff we started four to eight years back, and we have our lives planned around the world's creation. It's one solid project, but I'm never bored with it! (That being said, I need to finish something that can count as content. Only my artist has anything worth looking at. xD)
What's best is whatever you find comfortable, dude. Just go at your own pace. It'll keep you happy, and your work won't get butchered.
Thanks for the advice! I'll stick to this schedule then, and try to finish before the next Writer's Camp 
Hopefully I'll find time to work on my other novel, even though it's in french and shouldn't have that big of an audience, I'd love to have it out of my head
Hahah I think that, that's always the caveat with jumping around is getting around to finishing something lol. That being said, it's certainly a fantastic way to keep that creative energy flowing. At least you're loving every bit of it, make it as big and storied as you like. 
Book 1 of an urban fantasy YA idea = 101 990 words. 538 pages formatted standard manuscript style.
sigh I spent about 4 years writing it, including numerous edits. I think it's currently on draft #6
I believe it might be time to trunk it.
If you ever decide to translate it to English, lemme know. I'm not planning on learning French. (Yet.)
If you're asking me, it's As Remnants of Reign1. If you meant someone else, I'd try checking if they've got a link to it in their profile tab.
Cheers, my man!
That's planned, but you might have to wait for... a couple of years... or maybe more... I haven't even finished the french one yet
When I was in high school I wrote a Nanowrimo called My Dear Mystery that was 44k. It was 50-ish pages. I did it in 23 days. It was really hard as I was juggling college apps and school at the same time and didn't have a laptop so I would write it in breaks.
I enjoy writing short stories now in arcs because it fits tapas bite sized aspect more.
well, I've never posted on Tapas before (I came over from using Wattpad, and am not currently posting novel work anywhere so posting frequency is not something I've had to worry about for a long time haha) so I can't draw on any experience posting on the site. But my longest story was 184,000 words at final count and ~370 pages in microsoft word (it is completed). It took me two years to finish, mostly for Life Reasons (bereavement, mental health, etc.) which put it on hold for weeks at a time, so I couldn't say how long it would have taken under normal circumstances. My current work in progress is at 86,000 and it has taken me six months to get to this point, including planning time. I'm thinking I'll be done with the first draft by September if all goes well
I don't think I can help but write longer stories. I just don't get the ideas for shorter works. I enjoy getting really absorbed with certain worlds and characters and adding lots of plot elements and by the time I've put all that in, it's evolved into a monster haha. My books average about 110 to 150K words.
The longest thing I ever wrote clocked out at 400,000 words when it was 'done', and when I rewrite I'll be splitting the whole thing into different books because omg that's long (I wrote it during NaNoWriMo right out of high school, had a looooot of time on my hands). It's nowhere near finished yet as a reborn series, but will probably get some words stripped out because you know... NaNo.
I write series of books a lot, intertwining stories or big stories that need to be broken up. I struggle with writing short things... I think the book I published with my cowriter ended at 120,000 words so that's a good idea of finished volume.
My longest running project right now is Blood Moon, which is just under 90,000 words and now in part two... going to be a long ride! I try to update regularly but life tends to get in my way pretty often now >.>
Around 120k words, in two parts, a finished novel. It took about 8 months on-and-off, but most of it was written in short, intense marathons separated by weeks (or months) of inactivity. I think the actual writing time would amount to two - three weeks total.
I'm not very fond of using pages as the measure of length, it can be very misleading. My 120k words took 210 a4 pages, but my formatting is... Idiosyncratic, to say the least. It could easily be wrapped down to a much shorter length.
As for preferred length, it's a bit hard to say. I used to prefer writing long stories by a mile, but since then I've been stuck with an intense writing block for almost 4 years. Right now, I'm happy if I can write just about anything - short forms, novellas, flash fiction, any self-contained story. My biggest dream is to write the next part of my novel. It's experience like no other, and doing a short form can't really replicate that. Beggars can't be choosers, though.
My experiences with writing long forms are heavily influenced by the constraints and demands of my novel, so I don't believe they'll apply to everyone. The few things that come to my mind:
What helped me the most was setting myself clear goals and objectives in the real world. Writing is a form of communication, so the best first step is to establish what I want to communicate.
What is the message of my story? What do I want to show to my reader? What kind of feelings, thoughts or impressions do I want to evoke? What would I like to give to my audience through my writing? What would I like to get out of writing and sharing it?
I prefer to answer these questions from a get-go, before I even start conceptualising the story itself. It helps me establish what exactly do I want to write, how do I need to write it and what kind of tools (style, narration, plot structure, characters, etc.) I need to accomplish that.
Planning ahead helps, but only if I have a clear image of my story (see above). My favourite method is establishing what Doctor Who would call 'set points in time': A number of specific scenes that have to happen in the story. Everything in-between is the room for improvisation and 'pantsing' - I literally write whatever needs to happen to reach the next set point.
It helps a lot to have a set ending of the story, or at least several alternate endings to pick from. It might be vague, but a clear final scene tends to make truly powerful stories - the entire writing is leading to a single, well-defined moment. If I have a clear idea of the ending, I like to write it before anything else.
I see each chapter as a self-contained short form. It relies on the information and developments from the previous parts, but it should have its own exposition, build-up, climax and resolution. A reader who opens the book on a random page should be able to understand what happened in the chapter (if not how it fits the big picture).
If several chapters are directly linked together, I try to end each of them in a climax that gets resolved in the next chapter, and so on until I reach the resolution of the bigger scene. In this case, of course, the chapters are not self-contained - however, they build a single self-contained part of the plot.
For example, let's imagine that the protagonists are looking for a villain. In the first chapter they're searching for him, introducing the location (exposition), showing the search (build-up) and finally finding him (climax). In the next chapter he flees and they set to pursue him (resolution to previous chapter), then a chase scene unfolds (build-up) until they catch up and confront him (climax). In the next chapter the fight breaks out (resolution), the protagonists and the villain lock in combat (build-up) that ends up with the villain throwing a smoke screen (climax) and escaping. The protagonists lose their chance to catch him (the resolution of the whole longer scene).
That's a pretty logical way of writing a narrative. I'm not as pragmatic when it comes to my writing. I normally have a very vague idea of what I want my characters to do, where I want them to go, and a basic idea for some story arcs but It's mostly just impromptu. I get distracted way too easily (I may have ADD or ADHD... or both) so I can't write more than a thousand words in a day. It really sucks because I would love to be able to complete a story as quickly as other people. At the rate I'm writing my story, it'll take me a few years to finish.
Heyyy! This is what I did after I started my novel! Working toward that shit!
Also, you write in a rad way. Or, plan your writing in a rad way, i guess. I just sit and observe my characters as they show me their lives. Then I type and hope to God it gets across everything I'm seeing. So far, I think I'm alright, but my planning comes in quick visions of my characters in the middle of writing scenes.
You're not alone in this! My characters have a life of their own, and they decide to show me stuff when I sit down to write. That's how my story takes form, and it's probably why it gets weird sometimes ^^"
Skaarin got freakin' whack!! But yeah, this is definitely how I write everything of mine! Used to write with someone and when they left my life, I felt like my children were losing a parent. My characters are far too real to me. A planet's worth of my own heart. Think it'll break some more before I'm done writing. As in, by the time I die. I will never stop writing. I get far too attached to things.
