✍️ even more fic writer asks!

This one is a behind-the-scenes dive into a specific fic. Followers can send an ask with a number & the fic they’d like you to talk about ✨OR✨ you can decide what fic you’re focusing on and just ask for numbers. (Or reblog and answer everything like a Q&A)

1. Start to finish, how long did it take to plan and write? Did you take breaks during the process?
2. How did you come up with the idea?
3. Did the idea change at all by the time the fic was complete?
4. If the fic required it, what did you research in order to write it?
5. Did you outline the fic?
6. How did you decide what tense and POV(s) to use?
7. How did you decide what character(s) would narrate the fic?
8. Did you cut something out of the outline or an early draft? What was it and why did you decide to cut it?
9. Did you get stuck at any point? How did you get past that?
10. How did you approach writing the fic? (e.g. wrote it start to finish in order, started with the ending, starting with the twist)
11. What was the most challenging aspect of writing it?
12. What program(s) did you use to write and edit?
13. Did you write any of the fic by hand? If yes, which parts? Do you find you write differently by hand vs typing?
14. Talk about the fic’s opening scene & how you approached it
15. Talk about the characters’ struggles & how you decided on those
16. Talk about the fic’s biggest moment & how you came up with it
17. Talk about the fic’s ending. Why did you end it where you did?
18. Talk about your editing and revision process
19. While editing, did you kill any darlings? What were they?
20. Did you work with a beta? How did that affect the finished fic?
21. Did the fic end up shorter or longer than you had planned?
22. What is something you learned about yourself as a writer from the experience?
23. How did you come up with the title?
24. How did you celebrate finishing?
25. Share your favorite line
26. Share your favorite detail
27. Share a piece of lore you made up for the story
28. Write a new summary for the fic, but badly
29. If you made a playlist, talk about the songs on it and share a link
30. Would you ever return to the story’s universe and write more?