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my fic-writing process, by me:

1) open google doc. format the google doc how i like it. (”add space after paragraph”!) feel great dread. no. cannot do it. never. it simply won’t happen.

2) write a few sentences. start to kinda be feeling it. jump all over the word document scribbling bits of every scene in no particular order as the idea comes alive. most sentences are half words and half “_______” (which means i’ll get back to it later when my brain works better).

3) get so entirely all-consumingly immersed that i don’t quite exist any longer and i know somehow that while i might look like me on the outside, my REAL identity is the characters i’m writing about. (extremely normal.) at this stage i am incredibly annoying to be around irl because i’m like 30% there max, but my heart lives in the google doc with my fictional counterparts. getting pulled away when i want to be writing is a unique kind of mental misery that i can’t quite get a handle on experiencing with dignity. while writing, i probably make all the facial expressions i’m imagining the characters making and sometimes talk to myself aloud. (extremely normal again.)

4) revise-as-i-go for one trillion hours, throwing in new scenes at random like they’ve been there all along. writing something in chronological order? that could never be me.

5) make sure to fill in all the “________”s. there are always more than i remember.

6) realize that i think i’m done!!!!! oh my god!!!!!!! other people are gonna see this!!!!!! other people are gonna go on this journey with me!!!!!!! other people are going to FEEL how i FEEL!!!!!!! i’m not going to be alone anymore with this symphony of emotions!!!!!!! (this is the point where i should let my fic sit for a couple days before posting, but i never, ever do. the idea of other people besides me being able to witness its existence is too tempting!)

7) read once through but not in the most stickler-y proofreader way, if i’m honest.

8) grab some lyrics from the song that comes to mind first and slap ‘em on top as the title. wish i had a better and more thoughtful approach to titles.

9) create a draft on ao3.

10) read that through like three and a half times and fix all the weird italics.

11) POST, always knowing i’ve done so a little too soon!

aaaaaand 12) wait for comments in a state of keen, hyperaware, hyper-vulnerable emotional anguish. Suffer Forever.

this is my hobby!!!!!!!! for some reason.

#probably my weirdest stage 3 was when i wrote a fic from dwight's point of view in like 2007 for several hours #and then i just walked around my parents' house like 'i am dwight schrute now.'#i couldn't really remember how to think NOT like dwight schrute #now that was an experience #anyway 3 is my favorite stage because it's frigging bliss #but it also might be like dissociation or something idk #dollsome's deep thoughts #(i'm fine!)

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