Hi! For the writer asks, 10, 19, 22 if you feel so inclined? Thank you!
10 Do you have an outline? Do you stick to it?
RARELY. XDXD My typical writing procedure is to sit down, start at the beginning, sweat blood, cry, whimper, give up, play games, end at the ending. I almost never do an outline because I almost never plot.
I'm making efforts to switch that up some this year. My current piece for @tasteofsmut, I came up with an outline in bullet points. Admittedly, most of those bullet points are lines of dialogue and "gives so-and-so shit for this, snarkily". XD
Side note, not a sponsored ad, Scrivener is a delightful program. The corkboard lets me rearrange scenes and bits to my heart's content. For somebody who has to have a clean copy of anything I'm referencing, and therefore somebody who never scribbles out brainstorming or mind maps because it is SO MESSY, (I very nearly had an argument with my boss at work last summer because she wanted a display messy and artsy and I kept UNCONSCIOUSLY rearranging it to be in parallel lines, I'm serious, this is my brain) this is a way of being BRAINSTORMY while also being NEAT AND STRAIGHTLINES AND ORGANIZED.
19 Do you know how your story ends before you start writing?
Oh, almost always. The ending scene or image is probably the first thing I think of more than 50% of the time. All the rest of the writing is figuring out how to get to that image. The other 50% is a dramatic image from somewhere in the middle.
Example, Find Your Way Back, the image of the burned Manor and Draco crouched in the ashes was the first thing I thought of. I had to figure out how to get there and what led after it.
22 How many projects do you usually have going at once?
That's hard to define! I typically am only working on one piece actively. There's usually two or three more that are percolating in the back of my brain, and at least a dozen that are in "single word/image/paragraph of ideas" stage.
