Writers who write multi-chapter works, do you usually have everything planned out from first chapter to final chapter since the beginning or do you just wing it chapter by chapter as you write?
I usually have everything planned out, from start to finish, since the beginning
I usually wing it chapter by chapter as I write
I ONLY write one shots, but I have it all planned out before I write
I ONLY write one shots, and I wing it as I write
Not a writer
Voting ended onMar 1, 2025
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I need an option for, starts out winging it, and then plans it out as you go. It’s not really a chapter by chapter process, but longer than that, but not the whole story.
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as a kid who grew up raised on harry potter, had a harry potter themed party on my eleventh birthday, used to run a harry potter fanfic writing blog, mismag heals my soul. it takes harry potter and goes "fuck you. you dont own this concept and we can do it better." and then continues to do so much fucking better. like im so happy its not even funny.
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okay so look, one of my favorite tv shows of all time is The Flash, i have that shit on repeat frequently and a lot of the time i restart it as soon as i finish it or i'll wait like three months and then watch it again. it's fun and corny and earnest and great, and there's a storyline or two that are absolute nonsense, but i love it anyway and the ending payed off so well for me. it's pretty much my main comfort show. but so far, it's the only Arrowverse show i've actually watched all the way through, right? like, i've seen all the crossovers but really not interested in watching Arrow from start to finish and i've never really gotten around to Legends or Batwoman or anything. i watched most of the first season of Superman & Lois but then forgot to finish it.
WELL i'm finally watching Supergirl and i really like it a lot! Kara was always my favorite crossover character while watching The Flash so watching her show has been a delight. and then i got to s01e16 "Falling" and it hit me like a train how fucking GOOD that episode is as a metaphor for mental illness holy shit. especially when Kara comes back to herself and has to deal with the fallout from everything that evil!Kara said and did.
[spoilers for an 8 year old episode from here.]
the scene when she's talking to Cat on the balcony and says that she knows it wasn't exactly her fault and her brain was altered, but that it brought something inside of her out that was horrible and scared people and now she's afraid she's never going to win people back was just...so real? also, the scene when she woke up and felt horrified at what she'd done and described it as terrifying. when you deal with mood-altering mental illness, sometimes you find yourself doing things that don't feel like you, whether that's a deep-down part of you in the moment, or how you feel once you're more yourself, but that you know have hurt people or changed their perspective of you, and that's so scary. to know that that can happen to you. and to know that it might not be entirely your fault, but you're still the one who's going to have to fix it once you're you again. that you're still responsible even if you're not completely to blame.
and i loved Cat's response about it not being easy, but also not being impossible, and how she personally doesn't believe in failure, "as long as you get back up and face the music."
just. what a wonderful message to those of us who struggle with any mental illness that causes bouts of depression, mania, delusion, paranoia, anything. how real and complicated it is, and how hopeful.
and to have Kara, the epitome of what is good and wholesome and optimistic, struggle with this. the message that sends to me, personally, about how your struggles do not make you a bad person, but facing the music, taking responsibility and building back that trust — that means more. just. ugh. it's good.
also, i'm not even reaching to make this a metaphor, it's clear from the text that this was INTENDED because of the scene where Cat says that Supergirl is having some kind of mental break and offers to get her an emergency appointment with her psychiatric provider for some lexapro. it's said in that semi-tongue-and-cheek way that Cat says things, but it's also clearly a genuine sentiment from her.
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