Hello sweet anon thank you so muchhhhh <3 prepare for a yap sesh !!

If I don’t know what I’m going to write (usually that is the case when I’m fresh out of the world of a finished fic), I open a new blank google doc and I write down a handful of words for what tropes/tags/dynamics are really calling my name right now. in my head I call this the dump doc but it’s really important to me that I don’t title it or make it ‘nice looking’ in any way and literally just treat it as a stream of consciousness. And then we dump!!!!! I never ever ever ever delete a word from my dump doc because i never know what I’m going to do with what I’ve written in the future

i wrote my first ever fic on the notes app but I have google docs on both my laptop and phone now so I can just pick up where I left off if I’m commuting or something :) But in my heart I’m a laptop writer (and reader) - that’s my fav place to be !

I owe what I write to what I read. A lot of the first entries I make into the dump doc are just me expressing that I want to do my own take on tags featured in my favourite fics. Fake dating? I love it, I wanna write it. Canon comp? Love it, need to write it. Vampires??? LOVE—yeah you see where i’m going.

I find that at some point the stream of consciousness starts turning into specific scene ideas/bits of dialogue. My recent minsung process usually ends up looking like

Trope > deciding what jisung/minho are in relation to the trope > (a moment to consider whether they’re lesbians or not) > a singular scene/dialogue idea > fleshing out that single idea with setting and character detail > writing around the scene/dialogue I’ve already established

Once I’ve fleshed out one scene, i copy the baby fic into a separate document so that it can grow. Also i shift it into another doc no matter how long the fic is going to be just to make it feel like its own thing

For longer works (and I only begin to realise a work is going to be long once I shift it to its new document and start putting down scene ideas only to find that there’s like 5-6 scenes I want to write), i have a small section at the very top where there’s something like “goal for the fic:” followed by something I wanna keep in mind as I write the whole thing,,

For say the quiet thing out loud, my overarching goal was to edge jisu (that’s literally all that section said…..hehe). For I wouldn’t ask you, my goal was they get together at number 3. it’s never really super descriptive, just a reminder

Sometimes I don’t start with a trope and instead start with a song!! like in put this to bed where all I had was girl, so confusing playing on loop in my head and the friendship breakup and makeup trope came directly from the song

Once we’re in the actual fic doc, I stick by general rules
1. If the words aren’t coming, ditch the fic
2. No proofreading at all while I’m in the writing stage - that includes fixes for grammas, for plot, for style - whatever (even if it means that people I share the doc with will see my embarrassing typos….it’s ok ur here because I love u)
3. I never write chronologically

4. And I never say a single deprecating thing about my writing, even as a joke

And that’s me!! Thank u for asking so I could yap at you 💘💘💘