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[ SECRET POST #4336 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4336 ⌋

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[OP noted they'd like to apologize for leaving out the l in "evil" and once leaving out the second e in Colleen Camp's name]

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Or do you just make it up as you go along without much outlining or planning? If you outline, do you manage to follow your own plan or does everything change?

I have a vague outline because I usually know how I want my fics to end, but I have trouble getting there. I write out all my favorite bits first and then have to figure out how to connect them all, so the outlining helps.

the rare fic I have go long enough that there would be frequent updates or new chapters, half and half. some planning at least for plot, but the meaty fun of the story just happens when it happens.

one-offs though? mostly just a summary of what I want to happen and everything else is by the seat of my pants.

Sometimes I plot them out in advance, sometimes I just pull it out of my ass.

I will write the beginning of sections with the general idea and add and edit bits and pieces as I want.

I generally write a garbled summary of everything i want to happen in my multi chaps, so that I'm never stuck going "uhhhhh what now". And I generally stick to the larger overarching plan, but sometimes things change (like sideships, or if a character dies etc).

I once wrote a time travel fic where the canon female character was going to become an established character's mother in the endgame. I thought this was incredibly obvious from the first page of the story. Still, I had someone write to me and ask if I was going to pull a stunt and make this random, original side-character into the mom instead and part of me was like 'man no one would see THAT coming' and actually considered it. But then my shipper's heart won out and I went with the original, obvious ending. Mostly because I know all the shippers would have be outraged/devastated if I veered. So I guess I sort of have a plan but I'm willing to throw out mad changes at a whim if I feel like I can get away with it?

I don't plan much outside the outline of the story and some scenes I want to add. Sometimes my plans change and I tend to move stuff here and there. I'd rather have a lot of liberty regarding what I will and won't do with my stories and adding what I find entertaining.

I don't outline, but I usually have a good idea of where a fic is going. I definitely know where it's going before I start posting, even if I don't have it all written.

I usually have a vague outline, but for the most part I just go along with it as I write it.

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[ SECRET POST #4336 ]

Inspired by #2: Do you plot out your fics well in advance?

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