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hi hello i absolutely LOVE your works (i think i’ve read all of them and they live in my mind at all times lmao) and i’m so impressed at how long so many of them are. i’m trying to get better at writing longer fics so i’m curious what your writing process is when you’re writing something really long (:
Hiii!!! Thank you so much for reading my works omg!! I'm impressed, that takes a lot of work... As for me, when I'm going to write a longer fic, I usually end up thinking of a vague story idea and what I want... then, usually, I'll start writing it before I realize that this is going to be Too Long for a oneshot. (yes, this even happened with LSF)
Once I've realized that, I stop with what I've written and then I open up the beginning of the document and decide A) how long I want the chapters to be, usually by page amount. For instance, I Wanna Marry Your Brother the chapters had to be at least 10k, but for LSF, I do at least 20 pages. Then I go through and plot out enough story to fill however much would fill a chapter. I also usually have a set amount of time that eclipses between chapters. For instance, in LSF and I'll Keep You Safe, every chapter takes place over the course of about a month. The only time when this isn't true in LSF is at the very beginning, in which the first three chapters take place over about a month.
Anyway, once I've got it all plotted out, that's when I can go back to writing. I think the total outline for LSF was about 15k? So, like, it can take a few days to do it properly. After that, I pretty much just autism it out. I write from the very beginning to the very end and I honestly never switch to more "interesting" parts. That's part of why I can get chapters out more easily--I don't move around to other parts of the story. I also refuse to accept writer's block, I just force myself through it and then I go back end fix it later.
There's honestly not a lot of technique to what I do, I just have a lot of time and I know how to make myself work! I hope this can be somewhat helpful??
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