what is your favorite part of the writing process?
ahh hi!
i really enjoy seeing how things take shape and come together. from concept to execution: having an idea and then having something tangible to show for it. more recently (within the last year or so) i've started "sketching" some scenes out first instead of trying to write them out fully from the jump. it's usually a bunch of rushed half-sentences, maybe a few quick lines of dialogue, and it's very rough but gives me something to work with when i come back to it. this is typically when it's either late and i should already be in bed, or when i'm short on time. coming back and tweaking this also sometimes leads to the scene ending up very different than what i had usually planned on too! i like visuals so i'm pulling up links lmao. yes it's text instead but my point remains:
like in the beginning of the second chapter of triptych, in the first draft of the scene garrus was going to bring shepard up to her cabin and sleep on the couch, but that didn't work because he'd already been up to her cabin twice before. in the second version, she came back to hang out in the battery with him, but that didn't work either because the tone felt off. in the final version, he asks if she wants to spar in lieu of talking through her tangled up emotions. the heart of the scene remains the same though, which is important to me!
or looking at my current drafts, in my #wipdwednesday from a few weeks ago, it was supposed to be a short scene to establish setting and tone for the main fic with shepard in her cabin having a moment, but then a few lines of exposition turned into a few lines of dialogue and it added more meat, more emotional weight, i thought. it's a flashback, but it works better to establish her relationship/friendship with garrus too
watching something take shape is so cool to me--going from vague concepts to quick half-sentences to paragraphs and then actual scenes, and then a finished fic. i've never really been the kind of person to write solid outlines, so this is as close as i'm going to get, lmao.
