#i don't know if i'll ever actually write the follow up of TYBH from derek's pov

[cinematicnomad]

3, 13, 23

003. do you write fics from start or finish, or jump around? typically i write them start to finish! sometimes i’ll get ideas for a part i haven’t reached and i’ll jot it down—like, quotes, or descriptions, or ideas—but that’s about it. sometimes my brain gets ahead of me in that the dialogue for the fic will come to me?? bc it’s like the conversation is playing out in my head, so when that happens i have to just get the dialogue down before i forget it which means i’ll have to go back and add in the prose after the fact. but yeah, for the most part i start with the opening sentence and i write straight through until i reach the end. 

013. is there a trope you wouldn’t write if it was the last trope on earth? i went back through my blog to remind myself how i filled out the fanfic trope tiermaker list? for the most part this was about reading fic so thinking about it from a writing angle...can’t say i would never write dark fic (case in point: i made a serial killer!stiles au gif series years ago), can’t say i’d never write major character death or an unhappy ending (once wrote a drabble where stiles and derek both died)...the other’s i could probably force myself to write if i had no other options EXCEPT. 

crack fic. 

like??? i guess i understand the appeal?? KIND OF? but not for me. i always try so hard to make sure anything i write could conceivably fit into canon so crack fic just does not speak to me at all, reading or writing. 

023. if you had to remix one of your own fics, which would it be and how would you remix it? oh that’s easy to answer bc i kind of already started something like this. i’ve got the beginnings of an outline and the first scene of a remix of taste your beating heart from derek’s POV. i envision it as considerably shorter (like...15–20k instead of 110k+) and i would try to avoid rewriting the same scenes that already happened in the first fic. it would definitely be a companion piece so that readers could get a sense of what was happening outside of stiles’ POV—what conversations did derek and the sheriff have when stiles was at school, how did that confrontation with scott go down before stiles showed up, what was it like in the hospital waiting for stiles to wake up, etc etc. 

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