a heart will always stay one day too long

regarding your specific questions, i only post multi-chapter fics after i’ve finished a full first draft; chapters go up as editing is completed. in terms of that initial draft, i sort of outline and sort of write chronologically but for the most part stuff comes out as the spirit moves me. in terms of editing, usually the spirit moves me to shuffle sections around because it turns out i did not understand the pace or themes of my own work until the whole thing was out on the page. (sometimes, the spirit reminds me that He Would Not Say That.) each fic is a precious & unique snowflake tho so the process can be quite variable! i wrote clear to a hedgehog in a three-day haze like i had been fully possessed by the spirit of ilya rozanov himself. i know how to draw the line took weeks and a lot of that was spent editing, which is why the chapter count ended up increasing.