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Chapters: 11/? Fandom: The Glass Scientists (Webcomic), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde & Henry Jekyll Characters: Original Characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde (The Glass Scientists) Additional Tags: asylum AU, Very awful treatment of the mentally ill, god Victorian mental health practices were horrible, Horrible Things, Angst, hydrotherapy, Isolation therapy, Isolation, Mental Instability, Alternate Universe - Asylum, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, read author’s notes, hallucination, Water Torture, Hose, Body Horror, Graphic hallucinations, Drug Use, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Sexual Harassment, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Drowning, Graphic Violence Series: Part 1 of Pine’s Asylum Summary:

These will be the same hallways Henry Jekyll is going to see for the next four months of his 35 year old life. The man in front of him is going to become the conductor of his torment and the nurse beside him is going to resign in 5 days. The guard is going to become 1 of many, many more.

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: The Glass Scientists (Webcomic), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde & Henry Jekyll Characters: Original Characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde (The Glass Scientists) Additional Tags: asylum AU, Very awful treatment of the mentally ill, god Victorian mental health practices were horrible, Horrible Things, Angst, hydrotherapy, Isolation therapy, Isolation, Mental Instability, Alternate Universe - Asylum, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, read author’s notes, hallucination, Water Torture, Hose, Body Horror, Graphic hallucinations, Drug Use, Non-Consensual Drug Use, Sexual Harassment, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Drowning, Graphic Violence Series: Part 1 of Pine’s Asylum Summary:

These will be the same hallways Henry Jekyll is going to see for the next four months of his 35 year old life. The man in front of him is going to become the conductor of his torment and the nurse beside him is going to resign in 5 days. The guard is going to become 1 of many, many more.

UHHHHH not really? I’m sorry-

I have a hard time writing ANYTHING or being able to stay focused on more than one thing. That’s part of the reason why the next chapter of Walls and Holes is taking so long. I also don’t like the idea of posting chapters without having at LEAST one lined up and ready to post.

I CAN tell you my process tho!

For starters: It’s best if you have the whole thing planned out first. Don’t worry about details or dialogue, just worry about Actual events and the Most Important moments. Those are the Best moments usually where the meat of the story is. Like, literally lay the bricks out before you put the mortar in.

For Walls and Holes I started out with a single one shot that couldn’t have been more than 1k words. It was super vague, covered all the Stops, and included important emotions the character was feeling. Basically what I wrote was a detailed synopsis (in story mode) of what I wanted to happen.

I’ve always hand written everything first. I write out everything in my brain. I don’t worry about cohesiveness of dialogue or staying on topic when writing character monologues. That’s for draft 2, which I type. I make revisions as a type, which usually will bring my 500 word first draft to over a 1,000 words in the second (sometimes a little above). When I’m done, I pass it off to my beta reader who dissects it and makes suggests, to which I add more which brings my word count to 1,500 or 2k (this happened to the Sink chapter which was over 6,000 words and by far the longest chapter I’ve ever written).

So I guess you could say my main advice? Have a beginning middle and end planned out and good chunk of the stuff in between ready. Don’t hesitate from writing!! Just do it. You don’t have to do it in order, you can write certain parts in advance! I did that for Sink and for some other future chapters.

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Glass Scientists (Webcomic), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde & Henry Jekyll Characters: Original Characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde (The Glass Scientists) Additional Tags: asylum AU, Very awful treatment of the mentally ill, god Victorian mental health practices were horrible, Horrible Things, Angst, hydrotherapy, Isolation therapy, Isolation, Mental Instability, Alternate Universe - Asylum, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, read author’s notes Series: Part 1 of Pine’s Asylum Summary:

His worst fear is Bethlem Hospital. Worse still is ending up as one of its residence.

Chapters: 9/? Fandom: The Glass Scientists (Webcomic), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dr. Henry Jekyll/Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde & Henry Jekyll Characters: Original Characters, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Dr. Robert Lanyon, Edward Hyde (The Glass Scientists) Additional Tags: asylum AU, Very awful treatment of the mentally ill, god Victorian mental health practices were horrible, Horrible Things, Angst, hydrotherapy, Isolation therapy, Isolation, Mental Instability, Alternate Universe - Asylum, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, read author’s notes, hallucination, Water Torture, Hose, Body Horror, Graphic hallucinations, Drug Use, Non-Consensual Drug Use Series: Part 1 of Pine’s Asylum Summary:

These will be the same hallways Henry Jekyll is going to see for the next four months of his 35 year old life. The man in front of him is going to become the conductor of his torment and the nurse beside him is going to resign in 5 days. The guard is going to become 1 of many, many more.

I usually keep AU themes as close to the original contents themes as possible. It may have gotten a little out of hand with mermaid AUs, but I usually strive to keep everything as In Character and Rekevant as possible. I’ve reconstructed entire plots for AUs (the Frozen AU is a big one).

In terms of what I won’t put a character through: if it’s not relevant to the story, I don’t put it in. I don’t like senseless violence or angst just for the purpose of angst and making the characters miserable, because at that point tit doesn’t make sense and I’m not invested or feeling sympathy for the characters, I just feel Bad. There’s LOTS of things I could do to Jekyll in LOTS of my AUs but I hold back.

The Severed Head ending for the Frozen AU was PURELY for the drama of it and increasing the stress level but it’s not canon to my actual AU because at some point the angst just rises so high that it doesn’t feel satisfying anymore. I had a third even MORE upsetting ending that I discussed with my friend a while back but honestly it was just Too upsetting and had so many plot holes.

Anyway.