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.

Comments

[olivermoss]

For me, right now it's three. I have 1 completed and 2 in-progress fics for a fandom so tiny only one person besides me is even going to read it. But, I am very into this pairing's dynamic and want to play with it a bit more. But, once the three fics are done I am going back to other projects.

The fandom is the Beacon Hill Sorcerer Books. I am starting 3 pairings tags for the fandom, and it's the three canonical pairings. There is only one fic not by me on Ao3.

[g_uava]

Last year I also wrote just 3 fics for a couple of ships in a sleepy fandom and moved on since there weren't any other fans to bounce off ideas with when I was into those ships. 3 is a good amount and slightly above average as most writers seem to at most write just 2 fics for the same pairing.