#fic process

I have come to the realization that I, together with my ADHD brain and poor time management, will never be able to write a coherent, conjoined story consisting of more than three chapters. Unless it's hyperfocus, but it's not right now.

So, the decision has been made to give zero fucks about story consistency and just write whatever the fuck my brain cooks up.

That saying, remember me mentioning the Space Adventure and Space Fights? Forget everything I've said about both, I'm writing some completely different shit. It's still cyberpunk shit, though, so that's good.

ik what ur thinking. overkill right??? AHA no. not when erwin's office is above our very slutty triad in their honeymoon phase. plus i HAD to know how many chairs fit around that table in Erwin's office for ch 12 when we brief for our first campaign outside the walls. stay posted and don't cry about it.

rosie, lulu, frenchie, texas, fritzie, helga, victor, bobby, hans, hermann

i imagine that when he was really young she was very doting and adored him, she’d let him lay next to her, head in her lap while she played with his hair (she always told him his hair was beautiful, that he was such a handsome little man) but as he got a little older it was obvious that his father didn’t care for him and began to dislike him as much as his mother was the opposite

while she loved steve very much as her first and only child, she unfortunately loved her husband more and would do anything to stay within his good graces, like ignoring steve when he cried bc her husband said she was “babying him too much” and that he needed to learn that “real men dont cry”

over time she learned to loathe steve and blamed him for the rift in their marriage and steve watched her cling onto a man that didnt love her

when he comes home one day to find her on the couch, not in her room, not with a bottle of wine but with half a pack of cigarettes--the other half already smoked--he knows thats something is wrong (she never let anyone smoke in the house because of the smell)

she doesnt even look at him as she invites him to sit with her, just like how they used to when he was younger. he finds himself on the floor in front of her instead, his head on her lap, her fingers in his hair and steve feels like a kid again. she tells him that his father told her he wants a divorce. they sit in relative silence as the tv plays but neither one of them is really watching

after a while she says to steve, “dont ever let love ruin you”

Thanks for another ask <3 <3

Well-- on a good day, I start fic writing at 1am

on a better day, maybe 2am and i hard cap at 3am lmao

Sometimes, rarely, I'd put on slow jazz music while writing but most times I would need complete silence (because it's weird to write todd having a mental breakdown to smooth jazz--)

I'm not a fast writer when it comes to multichapters because I like to plan out the current chapter in accordance with the rest of the other chapters; unlike a one shot where I dont have to worry too much about the random stuff I add haha I have more poetic freedom in one-shots while multichaps call for consistency and planning lkasjdlkjas

for the multichap, I have to double back on previously mentioned chaps just to make sure everyone is on the same page :3

right now, plan out my multichaps with a story skeleton; just like a summary/blurb per chapter so i remember the purpose of each chapter so im not going off track :D Hopefully I'm doing something right with my fics kajdlkasjd

Ooh thanks for taking interest!

For fics (particularly Thin Air, Close Call + Background Noise, Safe, Chance Meeting, Bang, Rat Trap, Reed Switch + Electromagnet, etc... I'm MedicBaymax over there if anyone is interested) usually I have a fun medical concept that I think about and research for a long time. Not even like, in the fic research way, just I get really into something. For example, in Rat Trap, it's the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of warfarin, and I was thinking about it for literal years before I even started thinking about applying it to MacGyver fanfiction, and then months until I started writing the fic.

Once I do decide it's gonna be a fic then break the fic down by what events I want to happen and then what feelings I want those events to have for my readers. I come up with an opening gambit (or at least an interesting way to cause a problem for the character) and write that as the first chapter. Since the events don't usually translate directly into chapters, I basically write for 2000-ish words and try to find a natural break or cliffhanger around that point. And I keep doing that until all the events are done and the story can close.

In longer fics, I try as hard as I can not to think about the fic while I'm writing it, or else I accidentally exhaust my excitement about it and it becomes a WIP forever. I also try not to post a new chapter until I am at least one chapter ahead, so I have incentive to keep writing so that I can keep posting because I have such a great next chapter already but it's just sitting there on the word document.

For RPs, it's basically that I've talked through a certain scenario with someone (usually this is more whumpy than medical- like in Spines Allie and I just knew we wanted a scene where Jack had to pull sea urchin spines out of Mac). We also talk about where the situation will take place and if there are any logistical problems like "well why don't they just call 911??" we figure those out. We also decide what characters we will “play”. Then one of us writes a starter that sets the scene and we trade back and forth writing paragraphs.

All the RPs on my AO3 (Alibi, Radioactive, Spines, It's Leaking!, DIY or Die Tag, and Nightmares), are directly copied and pasted without editing from Discord (Skype for earlier RPs, and while I was serving in AmeriCorps and Allie was responding to hurricane Maria it was sometimes email or even text messages d/t the lack of consistent internet for chat platforms).

As far as what it is like, it's a little like writing a fic but not all the impetus is on you to figure out what happens next. Like if you don't know what’s going to happen next you just hand it off and hope the other person has a good idea. Makes it much more likely that it will eventually finish. Plus it puts me in a time crunch because I know someone else is waiting, which helps me actually get the paragraph out.

But its definitely also like reading a fic because you don't know what's going to happen next and you get to real-time squee with the other person if they write something awesome or devastating!

oooo okay! i am definitely not an expert by any means but maybe that’s even better because if i can do it, you can do it! 

this is the gist of my “process”:

the first thing i do when making a moodboard is brainstorming elements to include. more specifically, i think about the most important aspects of the fic i’m writing and think of how to incorporate it in the moodboard! for example, PEACHES for the peach fic was obviously something i wanted to include in the moodboard but it doesn’t have to be quite that obvious haha. if you’re including people (which i highly recommend), think about the ages/appearances of the characters in your fic (i don’t want to assume it’s h&l so i’m going to say characters) and find pictures that fit those ideas! for me, pinterest is a really helpful tool for finding pictures (not just of people but in general) but i also just type in “harry styles 2017″ or “harry styles age 22″ in the search bar to filter through pictures of him to fit the age/era he has in the fic. for objects and other pictures- i type in something like “sheets aesthetic” or “studying aesthetic” to find nice pictures!