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I believed it was going to take me like 2 weeks to write my next story. My first story took about that long so I figured the next one will take just as much time. It's been over a month now and I'm almost finished. Perhaps it's because I have to plan everything and I only use an hour a day to write it, except the weekends I give myself more time. Also, I started a new game and that one requires more coding so I have to plan things even more. So pretty much it's taken me over a month to finish my next story game and hopefully I'll be able to finish it sometime this week.

What about you guys? How long does it take you guys to finish a story game?

Months, nowadays years.

And that’s just writing. It would probably take me forever if I actually did any coding.

Months or years.

Thanks to school, I don't have much time to write. Also, while some other writers said that writing is like eating for them, writing is more like pouring my emotion and feeling. Without the appropriate mood, it's hard for me to do some parts.

I just create the emotion I want to put in myself by thinking I am the character. I learned that from the only imagination-page of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Emotive Writing", by jason1stlegion

Other factors also play a part. If I have a course, homeworks, or exams waiting for me in the week, I can't concentrate. Usually worried and forced to do school things even though I'm too lazy to do them.

This year isn't the good time for me to write down my imagination. Fuck school, seriously.

I have to write 25 pages for my autobiography. I don't want to write shits about me from when I was a baby until now, but I want to write my sci-fi modern adventure novel set in 2018 goddamn it!

The game I'm working on right now has taken me 4 months of writing. Plus a year of planning and developing the storyline and characters. Though that's probably because I usually bite off more than I can chew. It has fifteen planned endings right now.

My first quiz took a month. Partly because the coding, for my concept, was trickier than I thought it'd be and partly because I have a life, with a job, and a family, and several responsibilities. xD My first and second stories both took over a year.

The actual writing for UP took maybe 5-6 months, though I spent the 2-3 months Madglee gave us extra on on something I never finished. That's obviously not including bouncing the plot around in my head for a year before actually bringing it to paper haha.

Dead Man Walking took over a year.

Current projects are also taking years.

Well, I once wrote a Heroes of Olympus (by Rick Riordan) fan-fiction in about a month, but it was only a few paragraphs long, and it wasn't very good. Normally I am a pretty quick writer once I get an idea, and I don't make very many spelling mistakes. That being said, school writing projects are hell for me. Maybe it's the pressure to get a good grade and the fact that it's always supposed to be something realistic and factual (I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT DRAGONS AND WIZARDS, GOSH DARNIT!), but I never do very well on those. I estimate a well-planned and branching story would take maybe a few months at least to about a year, depending on how busy my schedule? is, if I want to use any coding, and how devoted I am to said story. 

 

99.9% of good storygames take at least a month to a few months. Most exceptional, long, and featured games take a year or two.

I guess Dynamism's storygame "Advantage" is an exception, since, according to her, it took her 2 weeks. I honestly don't know how someone can write a length 6 storygame in that time.

according to her him, it took her him 2 weeks. I honestly don't know how someone can write a length 6 storygame in that time.

Simple: have no life and a part time job. Though I'm working on the former, I don't think I'll work on the latter. Not to mention, I actually wrote a prototype for Advantage 2-3 years ago, and that took me 6 months to plan, write, and illustrate, so I had a template to fall back on. Then again, the second case I'm writing is taking me a month to finish a first draft so I guess it must've been ~*magic*~.

So the secret of writing a length 6 story in 2 weeks is doing NOTHING but that.

Oh, sorry. When I see a picture of a certain sex in a profile picture I guess it subconsciously makes me think that the user is the same. My bad.

One of 3J's stories took a day or two. Can't remember which one - but that's why I said 99.9% of noteworthy storygames.

Order of midnight sun is the one. Took him a couple days, though it seems like he a decent deal of assistance with some things.

For me, it depends on so many factors I'm not sure I could accurately answer the question. I have written stories here in just a day. I've written stories that have taken months. I've got one story that is working on about 8 months now, and it's nowhere near done.

It depends on my motivation, where the muse is that week, whether I'm writing other things, how much work I have at various jobs, whether the Renaissance festival is in town, if it is football season, and so many other things...

I had been working on AWGBNWA for 3 months at least, but then... well... site changes happened. 

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A Warriors Game by a Non-Warriors-Reader was a parody WC game I had been making with Rosetail that was supposed to poke fun at WC's occasional stupidity and actually be a good storygame as well. It's on sneak preview now.