3, 13, 22, and 23 for the fic writer asks?
3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?
This is an UNFAIR QUESTION /lh. It's like choosing a favorite child - I can definitely weed out the ones I don't like, but the ones left over are too difficult.
Blood Will Tell tho.
13. How much planning do you do before writing?
I have, essentially, a list of scenes in my head I want to write when I start, and they can be divided into two types of scenes:
Anchor scenes: Scenes that anchor the timeline down. These tend to be holidays, seasonal events, birthdays, the likes.
Floating scenes: Scenes that can happen flexibly, but need to resonate emotionally. These tend to be the more plot-heavy scenes.
As I go on, I will come up with more of each and refine the ideas I currently have. (Also to note is that one "scene concept" may, in practice, turn into many scenes.) How many of these ideas I have depends entirely. Whether this can be called "planning" is debatable, as I don't write them down.
22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing?
Usually, yeah, though it really depends what you mean. I tend to know whether it's going to be a happy or sad ending, who's gonna be in what relationships, etc. But I often don't know exactly what the final scene will be, or even what the climax will look like.
23. How do you choose where to end a chapter (if you have multi-chapter works)?
There are a couple factors. I try not to let chapter length influence where I end it too much, though sometimes it gets to a point where it's ridiculous, like, oh my God, I do not need 6 scenes in a single chapter, Jesus Christ. Going back to what I said earlier about the scene types and how one scene concept tends to turn into multiple scenes, generally a single chapter is going to be one scene concept. So, if I have a scene concept where Marinette and Luka hang out, and that turns into four scenes, it's likely I'll make those four scenes into a chapter.
