@archsimp I'm so sorry, I tried to answer this five times and "there was an error in processing your post" every time. So I'm answering it this way! Thank you for asking <3
4: Do you save your ‘cut scenes’ from your fics? (Want to share one?)
I have a document where I just stuff all of my cut scenes "just in case." But since they're cut for a reason (The Vibes Are Off), I rarely have a use for them later. It is sort of fun to look back and see the changes as the story evolves, though.
This is from my main WIP from my original version of chapter 17. This story is sort of a canon rewrite with Major Traumatic Changes, and this was going to be my original version of Hinata and Komaeda meeting again after Nidai is injured on the beach. But kmhn had already had a Major fight just in the last chapter and I couldn't stand seeing yet another fight dfhjkfffd it would've been too much combined with what had recently happened. So I wound up skipping this scene and just going straight to a reconciliation moment later in the chapter. But here's the skipped scene.
A quiet, rasping voice shatters Hajime’s reverie. A chill slips down his spine. Slowly, he turns. Komaeda stands at the junction between the third island and the central island, one foot still on the bridge and one on the land. His stance is stiff, like he’s holding himself upright through sheer force of will.
“What happened with Oowari-san?” Even the effort of speaking that question aloud seems to make Komaeda sway on his feet.
He’d never made it to the beach, had he? Had it taken him this long to even make it back to the central island?
Something between concern and disgust wells up in Hajime’s chest. Why is Komaeda even talking to him?
He’s so exhausted. So tired of worrying about someone who won’t let him worry about him.
“Oowari’s fine.” The words come out stiffly. “But Nidai took the hit from Monokuma for her. We don’t know if he’s gonna make it.”
“Oh.” Komaeda blinks a few times, as though he’s processing what Hajime said. “How... how meaningless. The best his death will bring us is the hope in overcoming the despair of his loss. Oowari-san should have known better than to recklessly put her life at risk. And Nidai-kun shouldn’t have bothered—”
“Look, I don’t want to hear it. I don’t really feel like hearing anything from you right now.
17: Do you regularly discuss your fics, or do you keep most of the info to yourself before you start posting?
I think I probably talk about them way too much... but even though I do vaguepost about how much I'm suffering writing them a lot on here, I try hard to keep any actual important plot points to myself before posting. I don't want to ever say "this is the chapter where X happens" or whatever, especially since my chapters tend to get a lot longer than I anticipate and X might not happen for another two chapters or something. I also don't want to be annoying about talking about them so I only post about them when I am truly desperate for attention dfhkdjffd...
18: How do you decide what POV to write in?
Right now since I'm mostly writing kmhn, I do find it easier to write in Hajime's POV, so I gravitate towards him. It's probably a mix between knowing how he thinks from playing the game through his POV, and just really resonating with him as a character. But I have written one Komaeda POV story so far, This Endris Night, and I wound up choosing him as the POV character there because he was the one who needed to come to an important realization or acceptance of a certain feeling (basically a transition from fear to acceptance, which hajime had already achieved but komaeda hadn't yet). This was a short multichapter, about 15k.
Basically, both with kmhn and outside of it on my old account, I think I usually pick the character who has the biggest personal journey to go on throughout the story, especially for shorter stories and oneshots. But for my main WIP LAFF, it made sense to write from Hajime's POV since it's so similar to the original game in structure, even though both he and Komaeda are going through the same amount of Misery and both have similar personal journeys. Since he's easier for me to write too, that was another factor in why I chose him to be the POV character.