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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[quailfence]

Usually only a single fic that’s less than 1k, but that’s the majority of the fannish works I make - out of the 92 works I have on AO3, I’ve written for 6 relationships (5 romantic, q familial) twice, and a single ship (Ninth Doctor/Jack/Rose) three times. I tend to be a bit more consistent with fandomdoms, but there’s sti a lot of fandoms that I’ve only written 1-3 works for on my AO3 profile

As for the ships and fandoms themselves, they’ve ranged from big/popular ships in big/popular fandoms to ships and fandoms that I’ve created the tag for, and everything in between.

[g_uava]

Seems it's usual for most writers to write max 2 ships for the same pairing in a year. No stats to back this up, it's just my general impression.

In the case of the big/popular ships and fandoms you've written for, what led you to not write more for the ship/fandom? Were you already satisfied reading what others have created?

[quailfence]

It’s partly being satisfied with what others have written, but more commonly (and this applies to all ships, not just popular ones), I want to write a ship but don’t have ideas, or I do have an idea but time management issues/executive dysfunction mean that I can’t get myself to write it down