AU, but a very generous definition of AU. I think you know what I mean - that line where the characters are in canon settings, in canon roles, but are not in canon relationships or doing canon things.
That's not to say I don't love non-canon settings and characters in non-canon roles (I adore those), but often, my stories are AU simply by virtue of the relationships.
44 - do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?
Oh, I am SUCH a linear writer. I may skip a scene that I have trouble framing (usually a sex scene in a very long fic) but I write from the beginning to the end. No deviation, no exception. I don't think I can write out of order. I pants - I don't outline - so I don't actually know what's going to come next if I haven't written what came before.
Am I making any sense?
47 - how many unfinished ideas/stories are you working on at the same time?
I try not to have more than two stories going at once - a short, off the cuff story to fill a need and a longer epic type story that's brewing in my brain.
I should mention that I have a fairly strict rule that I started adhering to after I spent a year writing Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places. NEVER AGAIN. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER AGAIN WILL I START PUBLISHING A STORY THAT IS NOT FINISHED.
Which means that I have a 50k story that will probably be the first in a trilogy but that 50k represents only a quarter of the story yet to be told for the first part of the trilogy. And only my alpha and beta readers will see it until it's finished. It's why I have a secretly published 162k fic that no one will ever find - it was written for an obscure challenge and I plan to publish it two chapters a week, once my beta reader finishes it.
I can't commit to a writing schedule that will tie me down to a single story for an undetermined length of time.
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Date: 2017-01-01 03:46 am (UTC)AU, but a very generous definition of AU. I think you know what I mean - that line where the characters are in canon settings, in canon roles, but are not in canon relationships or doing canon things.
That's not to say I don't love non-canon settings and characters in non-canon roles (I adore those), but often, my stories are AU simply by virtue of the relationships.
44 - do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?
Oh, I am SUCH a linear writer. I may skip a scene that I have trouble framing (usually a sex scene in a very long fic) but I write from the beginning to the end. No deviation, no exception. I don't think I can write out of order. I pants - I don't outline - so I don't actually know what's going to come next if I haven't written what came before.
Am I making any sense?
47 - how many unfinished ideas/stories are you working on at the same time?
I try not to have more than two stories going at once - a short, off the cuff story to fill a need and a longer epic type story that's brewing in my brain.
I should mention that I have a fairly strict rule that I started adhering to after I spent a year writing Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places. NEVER AGAIN. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER AGAIN WILL I START PUBLISHING A STORY THAT IS NOT FINISHED.
Which means that I have a 50k story that will probably be the first in a trilogy but that 50k represents only a quarter of the story yet to be told for the first part of the trilogy. And only my alpha and beta readers will see it until it's finished. It's why I have a secretly published 162k fic that no one will ever find - it was written for an obscure challenge and I plan to publish it two chapters a week, once my beta reader finishes it.
I can't commit to a writing schedule that will tie me down to a single story for an undetermined length of time.
Does that make any sense?
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