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[fahye]

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I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around, and it's not like I have that much fic to be asked about*. But ask me writing questions anyway?

*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.

'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.

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[fahye.livejournal.com]

Basically, because I absolutely must know where I'm going before I write the journey. The plot might jump around a bit (if there is a plot, which is...sadly infrequent) but I always head into any story knowing exactly where I want my characters to end up both physically and in terms of any emotinal/relationship changes they may go through. And having the ending written means that I feel less like I'm flailing around without a compass when the middle section is being problematic, which it always does.

If the fic is more abstract, I might wait a bit and let the ending emerge as a way of tying up threads of reference or metaphor, but it always makes itself known pretty early in the writing process.

[girl-wonder.livejournal.com]

ohh, good answer, I like. :)