#i hope that was halfway coherent lskdfjs

[altschmerzes]

Sorry for anon and sorry if you’ve answered this before but I’m a really big fan of your fics and unless my sense of time had been utterly screwed it seems like you write a lot very fast.

Can I ask about your writing process? Is there any rhyme or reason to how you write or do you just sit down and lock in lol

please don't be sorry!!! i love to talk about writing and my fics any day of the week fr. it is beyond flattering to me that anybody would consider themselves a fan of my fics and i'm so :') to hear it thank you!!!

and no your sense of time isn't utterly screwed i did just write and post a 16k oneshot in a little over a week, and idk if that is. a lot? in that amount of time? but it sure felt like a lot slkdjfs.

in terms of my process it's a combination of rhyme and reason and also sitting down and locking in i think! most of how i get things accomplished is in what i call 'flashdrafting' and in chasing the rabbit wherever it goes, wherever the 'i need to write this NOW or im gonna die' is leading me at the moment. the first stage in what i write often goes right from outlining which is usually short bullet pointed like. a goes to b goes to c. and then flashdrafting is like. i'll describe how a gets to b and how it feels to be there and what gives the idea to go to c and what it reminds them of. but it'll be the quickest, shittiest version of that, little punctuation, fleshing out details and specific lines of dialogue. and then i go through and rewrite it into real paragraphs, round out descriptions, transitions, missing bits, all the grammar and punctuation bull honkey etc.

i think that really helps speed up my process because it gets things out real fast without having to worry about whether it sounds okay or whatever, i just get whatever im thinking about out into words. and i can fix it later. but it's more satisfying than pure outlining, so i tend to get more out of it! i also sometimes use telling a friend about the idea as a way to get a lot of those notes out. sometimes half my notes for something are just transcribed stuff from a conversation i had with a buddy who indulged me. talking it out that way is a great way to get ideas more built up. tell your friends a story!!! it really helps me at least, especially when i'm in a really 'hit the ground running' place.