Meme: DVD Commentary

[elrhiarhodan]

Ganked from lionessvalenti

Ask me a question about one of my fanfics or fanfic series. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-goddess answer (even on the progress/plans for next chapters of current series).

Don’t hold back. Whatever you ask, I'll answer truthfully and as completely as possible. You can also ask about my writing as a whole, if you like.

Bring it on and repost on your journal so I can ask you, too!

Comments

[damietta.livejournal.com]

Do you often have the ending first and write back from that?

[elrhiarhodan]

That's a good question!

There are definitely stories that start out with a definite ending in mind. For example, in "Love is As Rich As The Sea" I knew I wanted the story to close with Peter, El and Neal back at Neal's apartment, because El wanted to go there - nothing bad ever happened to her there. In "Between the Darkness and the Dawn" I knew that the climatic scene was going to be Peter and Neal's reunion on the Rialto bridge - and I built a whole story around that.

And there are definitely other stories that didn't start with an ending in mind - sometimes they form organically (I'm thinking about "Wash the Sins Away" when Peter thinks that if Neal has to go back to prison, he'd either send him to Brazil or kill him) and sometimes they are a struggle that can take months to achieve - "We Shall Come Home" languished because I couldn't see that I had already written the ending.

My preference would be to have the ending in my head before starting, but it doesn't always work that way.

[damietta.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm sure each story is a different journey to publication, but I was curious as yours are really well plotted.