Maximum number of self-created fanworks for an unpopular fandom/ship

[g_uava]

What's the upper limit of fanworks you've created as a self-sustaining fan? That means relying on yourself primarily to sustain your own interest to complete your creative projects since your fandom/ship/favourite is so obscure that feedback and other fanworks to inspire you are hard to come by.

Also, would you have wished to have created more for the same unpopular fandom/ship, even if there remains few others who are just as invested?


The most I've created is around 30,000 words of fics and fewer than 10 non-writing fanworks (icons, gifsets, fanvideos) for a rare pair from an old fandom. It's so rare that there were (and still are) no other English language fanworks for the ship aside from what I've created.

I'm satisfied with what I've created and am glad to move on to another canon that involved tackling a new challenge in my fanworks. But if I were to write for the ship again, I'd more deliberately include a larger variety of fun fanfic tropes in my fics.

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[doranwen]

I created 15 for a very tiny fandom (Alphas - fantastic sci-fi show) which has only around 200-300 fics total for it anywhere that I could find (fewer than 200 good ones, lol). What I created: 14 fics/ficlets totaling over 54k words plus one fanvid (the only fanvid I've ever created to date). They aren't *specifically* shippy but one could read a lot of them as such, as I write two of the characters with a relationship that's unstated and undefined in the fics but which could easily come across as somewhere between queerplatonic and romantic friendship.

I'd write more I had the time. (I've got a long WIP in another small-ish fandom that needs finishing first and I'm still so swamped with the Yahoo Groups project plus a few other things I've been working on that I haven't written since a pinch hit I picked up last Yuletide.) Most of the shorter fics (not the 25k one, nor a few other small ones) are part of an AU series I was writing, and I have part of the next fic written (but not posted) before my ideas petered out. I'd also probably need to see if the alpha reader I had then was still around to chat with and help me get past the plot speedbumps that kill so many of my WIPs. She was pretty much the only person I could guarantee would ever comment or cheer me on but one person was all I really needed.

[g_uava]

'fewer than 200 good ones' - 199 good fics would be paradise for me haha

I feel you about really needing just one person. For another of my rare pairs (just less rare than the others), the only reason I could keep writing fic after fic for them was because I had a reader who commented on every single story I put out for 10 months straight.