#planlessfic

i plan to post three drabble sets within a series, which will include the fourth/originally published fic.  so it will look like:

super pre (i’m not sure this one will actually happen?  idk)

pre (so the stuff building up to...)

when you say goodbye

post (anything that happens after and oh boy i have feels/headcanons)

the question that i am facing right now is the following:

i’m writing them out of order.  i will continue to write them out of order.  trying to order the drabbles on ao3 will be a nightmare.  these are the two scenarios i’m thinking of, one proposed by me, one proposed by my beta:

option 1: i insert new drabbles into the fic in the order in which they should be read, and chapter titles will be the date that i add them to the fic so people can, theoretically, keep track of what they’ve read. ↳ pros: fic in order ↳ cons: people reading in real time on ao3 will have to dig into the fic for new chapters, rather than just clicking to the end; probably confusion on their part, not to mention my own

option 2: come up with some sort of vague numbering system where theoretically unwritten plot points can represent numbers from, let’s say, 1-100.  that means that if i write scenes out of order, i can just number them and have it appear non-linearly.   ↳ pros: can just add chapters/drabbles in the order i write them and can easily indicate where they appear ↳ cons: if i have something numbered 23, then write a 24, then write a scene between 23 and 24, i either have to go with a ridiculous decimal system or renumber all my chapters