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Anonymous Babygirl · 1y

You said we could ask about your writing process, so here goes: do you usually write and outline first or just wing it? I have a hard time not getting sidetracked when writing and end up writing out of order. I thought an outline could help, but I keep changing the story and having to rewrite both the outline and the story several times and as a result take a million years to finish. So I was wondering how other writers deal with this, specially in longer fics

for one shots: wing it; for chapter fics: i usually try to get a brief outline of what i want to write, sometimes the outline is written down sometimes its just in my mind! outline wise, i keep it loose and usually just have certain scenes/points i want to hit, and the rest are just up to whatever strikes me that day wwwwwww i usually rework the outlines if i want to change the story, but not super significantly ^^

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