I'm really not, definitely compared to Ellie, I'm just more Shen Wei than you are XD
you definitely managed to pull off just looking like it was all planned ahead of time
Really, what I do when I start writing is have a Key Scene in my head along with the fic concept. (Darkness: caves + Shen Wei healing Zhao Yunlan to the point of falling over to avoid having a conversation, Towers: their apartment being on fire, Shadows: Shen Wei hurt to death and the Lantern going out.) Then everything I'm writing is setup to justify that scene in my head. I generally know that it's going to fall about halfway through the fic, because it's going to be something that will then have to be Dealt With, but I don't worry about the aftermath until I've literally got there. Then I just write logical next steps for a while until I've decided a Final Climactic Scene for everything to join up towards. Every longfic I've written has worked like this.
...For instance, in the fic I'm currently writing, my Key Scene is Zhao Yunlan drinking Shen Wei's blood in circumstances where they both know this will be an Utterly Terrible Idea! :D It's taken 20k to get them to this point and I finally wrote that scene last night. ETA: It's not the bit that was in my Sunday Snippet. Everyone was much more functional at that point. Now I'm excited to find out what happens next! :D
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Date: 2019-10-28 12:47 pm (UTC)you definitely managed to pull off just looking like it was all planned ahead of time
Really, what I do when I start writing is have a Key Scene in my head along with the fic concept. (Darkness: caves + Shen Wei healing Zhao Yunlan to the point of falling over to avoid having a conversation, Towers: their apartment being on fire, Shadows: Shen Wei hurt to death and the Lantern going out.) Then everything I'm writing is setup to justify that scene in my head. I generally know that it's going to fall about halfway through the fic, because it's going to be something that will then have to be Dealt With, but I don't worry about the aftermath until I've literally got there. Then I just write logical next steps for a while until I've decided a Final Climactic Scene for everything to join up towards. Every longfic I've written has worked like this.
...For instance, in the fic I'm currently writing, my Key Scene is Zhao Yunlan drinking Shen Wei's blood in circumstances where they both know this will be an Utterly Terrible Idea! :D It's taken 20k to get them to this point and I finally wrote that scene last night. ETA: It's not the bit that was in my Sunday Snippet. Everyone was much more functional at that point. Now I'm excited to find out what happens next! :D