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HI CALLA!!! thank u for askingggg this one is fun :>
17. talk about your writing and editing process
i feel like i've actually gotten to a point where my Process is something solidified that i can talk about it. i've kind of developed it in the past year i think due to writing a lot for jltg which i'm really really pleased by!!
generally when i have a Fic Idea i sort of bounce it around for a little bit letting it accumulate in my brain. usually this is like, hints of an idea like "adam + humiliation + watersports". talk about it with people (sometimes fic chat, mostly don't) kind of let the idea percolate until it's solidified into a real Scenario that i can start flirting around as a fic.
and then i start doing what i have called prewrites but what is basically the worlds shittiest first draft ever. and what this looks like is i am writing stream-of-consciousness What Happens In The Fic, because for me the hardest part about writing is figuring out the shape of what happens. especially porn!! where the bodies are moving and you have to keep track of them all. here is an example:
the format for prewrites is kind of like if i was talking to a friend about what happens, loose and sloppy and also letting myself be real candid about a character's emotions so that later i can better obfuscate it. and honestly unlocking this step in my process has helped a LOT in terms of making writing more comfortable with just showing up and doing, rather than having to wait for Inspiration To Strike. it's a lot easier to start rambling about what happens than to expect myself to also have good sentences about what happens. if that makes sense?
and then i go and turn the prewrite into actual words. which it turns out is actually easier when you know what comes next! sometimes the details change from the prewrite to the actual draft-- hit me with your lovin's draft really vastly differed from what i wrote in the prewrite, especially towards the end, but that's mostly because i wrote the prewrite and then took months to actually convert it to fic.
(fun fact about that one is also that i was just going to let that fic DIE in my archives with the rest of my WIPs and then i let vi read the prewrite and they convinced me it was worth continuing. and now i'm quite proud of that one! so shout out vi <3)
and then when i finish the actual fic i try to let the fic sit for a little bit before i can post it, but very often it's only a few hours after until i'm like Ok i need to fucking post it now. let it loose into the world. and then i turn off my phone and i don't look at the comments or kudos ever (this is a lie i'm usually Always checking.)
i rarely have edit passes, i rarely have beta readers. but there are some fics where i think that i Should get some. i just get heavily impatient when i think of a fic as Done and i'm like GET THIS THING OUT OF MY BRAIN NEOW!!!!!!! and i just send it out and it's over and done with <3
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