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edoro · 2 years

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⛔ , 🦅 and 🎉

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped? - hmm... i have a ton of wips that are probably never going to be finished, but as far as like, projects that i started and then decided to not continue on purpose rather than just running out of steam/motivation...

i think probably the closest is the redneck wizardcore modern au. that was my stab at "what if Philip wasn't On Purpose an abusive monster" (still ends up being very dysfunctional because... it's Philip) and i came up with the whole concept during the mid-s2 hiatus, and there's a lot of stuff i've since updated my understanding of wrt like...

Philip's character and how i see him but also, when i came up with it, we didn't even know Caleb's name. i had an idea in mind for then-unnamed Wittebro, and it's since turned out to be wildly incorrect and their entire dynamic is much different than the one i had in mind.

so, i just need to redo the entire au to account for Caleb and either why Caleb isn't around or what Caleb being around does to the story. definitely have a few different versions of that rattling around in my head, but the initial one as i wrote and imagined it is just no longer canon compliant to a degree that i don't think it works anymore.

🦅 Do you outline fics or fly by the seat of your pants? - oh yes i outline the HELL out of fics. i usually have a process of getting gradually more and more detailed with the outlines - i start with a general concept, put down everything i know for sure in order, figure out where the gaps are to connect one event to another so i don't have anywhere where i'm like "idk and then something happens" bc that kills writing momentum like NOTHING else, and then when i actually get to writing i drill down into the play-by-play of each scene.

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success? - actually finishing and posting it, lmao.

outside of comms, i write things because i'm interested in exploring an idea, so it's primarily for me. i do find a lot of gratification in getting comments though, the more detailed and in-depth the better - and i'm aware that takes effort to do! i have my own huge backlog of fics i need to leave comments on when i have the spoons to do it.

but getting people - whether it's random ao3 users or regular commenters or my friends who i torment/delight with all of my wips and ideas - talking to me about what i wrote, having ideas and feelings about it, telling me their reactions, telling me their thoughts and theories, riffing off what i did - that's the best part of writing fic for me. so whenever i get that with something, then i'm really happy.

and if i get people commenting telling me that they felt what i hoped to make people feel, or noticed/took away what i was hoping for people to notice/take away from it, then that also makes me feel like i successfully communicated the ideas and feelings that i set out to.

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