I Have A Fic Idea That I'd Really Like To Write, And I Hope People Would Like To Read It, But I'm Too

Trigun is so mean it's like here's this funny whimsical little man with the love of five thousand suns ans rainbows. Isn't he so very cute and loveable? Now watch him go through the absolute most diabolical torment the author can think of. And they did three different versions of it. AND THEY ALL SLAP

I want to eat your Ford, and your Ford very specifically. He’s such a weirdo, a little freak. I need to emotionally consume him.

In all versions you write him. I need to just

Stan less so, for him I need to more slurp him down, like a smoothie.

I’m very happy that you like my flavor of Ford, I’ve made him into a lovely combination of every piece of Ford Writing I’ve ever liked, and now he won’t leave me alone.

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I’m reading your fics and I really love them. Coincidentally I’ve also gotten very into fanbinding the past two years, and I was wondering if I could get your permission to bookbind your fics? It would be for personal use only and I would never sell them or use them for profit.

Stares at you with the BIGGEST eyes. I'm gripping your shoulders and not blinking.

Yes. Yes you can absolutely bind my fics. Oh my god. Yes.

Abandon my Eulogy will be officially FINISHED very soon, and I'll go through the fic as a whole to finalize anything (and check for typos again, although you have my permission to fix anything YOU find in your binding process) but I am SO EXCITED

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE POST PICTURES IF YOU DO BIND MY FICS IM LOSING MY M I N D

If you outline your fics, how do you go about it? Or do you just write it out without a specific plan?

God I wish I could just START writing my fics, but no I am nothing if not a well planned bitch

First, I write stuff out on paper. This makes it’s easier to go back and look at my own writing, but also paper has? Less high stakes for me? If I type something it feels like I HAVE to go in that direction, but when I write on paper I can just scribble it out or turn to the next page. This step is where I’ll write whatever comes to mind that I might want to add, usually out of order. I guess you could call this brainstorming? But I don’t usually cause to me brainstorming is JUST in my head, and this is on paper. That’s another thing, GET THE IDEA OUT ON PAPER because youll be super excited about a certain dialogue line or plot line, and if you don’t write it out you will forget. So step one is filling pages and pages of my favorite, designated ‘Brain Dump’ notebook (mine has mushrooms on it :) )

Then, actual outline. This is also on paper for me, where I’ll write out any big plot lines or bits I’ve come up with in the first step, and try to fit them in an order that makes sense. This is simultaneously the easiest part and the hardest, because I’m someone who wants smoothness in my writing in terms of how stuff flows together, so I’m ver particular about what stuff goes where. If I’m doing an outline for a WHOLE fic, each little line is most likely a chapter, or important chapter moments however, and this is important, I make up an outline for every chapter I write. That way I can go into detail with what dialogue goes where, the blocking of how the characters are, etc

Then it’s first draft time!! This parts fun. This is where I write BADLY. I basically just throw everything at my poor google docs until it sticks, and I try not to stop, so there’s no going back and spell checking, or finding a better word. If I write “says” or “he shivered” eight times in the same paragraph it DOES NOT MATTER. I’ll be back later. This draft is the shittiest possible version of what I want to write.

Step two of first draft is when I’m DONE, I have the bare bones of my draft, and this is where I go back and ask myself if I really deserve to know how to type. I’ll sew up any glaring plot holes, spell checking, rewrite verbs and whatnot to not repeat, stuff like that. If I read the whole thing and decide I don’t like this particular part, I’ll delete it and rewrite it.

Then it’s onto my favorite part, draft two. This is REWRITE TIME. not edit, rewrite. Thats the best writing advice I’ve ever gotten and I can ever give. I pull up two screens, slap my draft 1 on the the first screen and open a new doc, and rewrite the entire thing. Why? Because as im retyping this is when I add prose, and fix the flow, and add more angst in or better word choice or whatever. This is where the LENGTH of whatever I’m writing comes in, I’ll usually double whatever I have for the first draft, on sheer added prose and grace notes alone. This part is immensely satisfying, and it takes the longest by far. I do this for every single chapter of things I post on Ao3

Draft three is usually my final draft. I copy and paste draft 2 in another document, and I’ll read through again for any typos and mistakes and fix those. This is PROOFREADING, plain and simple, and it’s so important. I usually don’t fix much in this stage, but I do read it outloud (quietly to myself or maybe my dog) to see if it sounds right.

And thats it! Usually, at least with Abandon My Eulogy each chapter takes about two weeks, and by two week I mean I spend a week thinking about it not actually writing and then outline, first draft and correct that in three days. Draft two takes. So long, but it’s worth it

‘Sorry I went off on a ramble there

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(here's a follow-up post^^ thanks for all the notes everyone!!!)

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