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[marguerite_26]

I've decided that I'm in love with starting fics. It's my favourite part, having some sort of prompt or genre in my head and then finally getting that fic idea. It's thrilling, working through the plot in your head getting some bits of scenes come to life and writing a complete outline.

I came to this conclusion because in the last 4 days I've done this with 3 different fics.

Unfortunately the next (actually writing) not nearly as fun. then after that (editing) even definitely less fun. I hate rereading what i've written. painful.

but I could outline fics until the cows came home (then i would outline the cows)

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[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

No actual physical/electronic outline; I know who what why and when, like a history, and maybe have a few clear images or scenes or lines in my head, but it rarely gets into a First A, then B, then C format. The only way I get anything done is to force myself to open a word doc or comment box and work it out as I go along.

Taking down notes for ideas is fun though! Mine tends to end up looking like a few people brainstorming over several scraps of paper, with illustrative doodles, world-building notes, dialogue fragments, and pretty lines all out of sequence. Occasional arrows linking related bits in the correct order of events. We should all scan/take pictures of our writing wip process, I want to see what everyone does. :D

re sloppiness: You seem to do well enough to me. There's a start, a middle and an end. :p