#TBH I'm flying by the seat of my pants. Maybe we should plot this?

[apocalypta-secundus]

Royalty AU (Cont'd from here) || @shieldofwaves

He was right, she could very easily trick someone into thinking she was helpless when she knew how to throw punches and wield a sword rather well. Lyn was good at defending herself, less… good at following social anything. Anyone who tried to be formal with her, she'd tell them to just use her first name and not bother with the pleasantries.

"Yeah, gotta just use my head sometimes… I'll keep training, but I don't like it when they call me Lady. I get it's a formal title and all. But it wasn't earned!" She needed to figure out how to not be rough when trying to correct others. Last time she corrected someone, she knocked them out flat on their back.

[zaxal]

🦅 for the fanfic ask game!

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants?

for short fics, i'm usually just going where the spirit moves me

for longfic, there is always A Plan. in the beginning, i did not write The Plan down bc i figured if i was hyperfocusing on a fic to begin with, why would i ever forget where i was going?

then i started doing haunting 101 and run rabbit run at the same time, and realized writing it down was a vital part of the process, bc i would leave a vague note to myself to designate the start of the next chapter and realize i had No Idea what i had been thinking at the time.

so, writing The Plan down became important, but the first few were just notes on my phone that i lost when the phone died, and they weren't, tbh, that detailed.

for my wips atm, i have a designated notes doc where i've scribbled down the general plot beats i want to hit in each chapter. i may end up writing more; The Plan is never as strict as it maybe should be.

the exception to this is Lambs to the Slaughter which has:

three google docs of notes from texts between me and parker, one of which is an au we invented totally for smut but has some character notes buried between the porn

a style guide

a list of demons, their associated animal, and their pronouns

a general 'notes' doc where i keep track of the major plot beats in the chapters i've written so i know where to look if i need to reference something and where i have plans for future chapters written down, but i often underestimate how much room i'm gonna need to write scenes so i'll be like 'and this one chapter is about azram sort of meeting all the archangels' and it ends up being five chapters, lol.

thanks for asking!!!