I would love to hear if anything changed from the start to finish of the porn fic! It's one of the few fics of yours I've followed along with the posting of in real time.
more than any concrete change it was that i started writing without being sure of what a happy ending for the characters would constitute in the story. i think i tried to give myself a handful of outs -- initially, there was going to be more of a plotline with lewis's independent work as a career goal for daniel. i also put the job posting sign in the cafe window literally just in case i decided daniel or max needed to end the story as a barista. i was worried about writing a story that would somehow be, like, correct for the porn industry itself in terms of an ending, and a) who am i to ever figure that out and b) i really had to sit down and--with the immense help of @veryspecificfantasies who literally talked me through this on the phone--just decide what would work for these characters in this story. but i didn't know what that would be until i actually started writing the last chapter.