Okay my dude, I keep meaning to ask and then forgetting, so I'm finally doing it! How on earth do you manage to write up to three different stories at once! And I say up to bc I'm pretty sure you had 2 from vld and 2 that were jaytim? Idk if one of them has finished yet? How do you know get confused about what's happening, who's talking to whom, how do you maintain the integrity?? Bc is it a bromance is so solid and I'm gonna assume the others are as well! How do you keep up the consistency??
Lmao it’s cute that you think I’m only working on three or four stories at once. Anyone who’s ever held conversations about writing with me or been in a discord chat with me can confirm that my brain never stops when it comes to fanfic and stories in general.
I currently have 2 sheith stories going on right now, 1 jaytim, and 1 birdlfash with a side of jaytim. But I also have my birdflash write 365 series that’s happening right now. And then there were the five stories I was working on for jaytimweek that’s starting next week and I’m also currently working on NaNoWriMo which is going to be a bunch of fic this year so that’s at least one or two more stories from that. And all of that doesn’t even begin to take into account the multiple ideas for fics that are sitting in my notebooks waiting to be written.
For the most part, whenever I sit down to write a fic, I have a rough outline (sometimes not so rough and more detailed) of what’s going to happen over the course of a fic. Other times I have a single idea and just kind of wing it and that could get me anywhere from 3-4k to 50k depending on the content. So I start with an idea basically lmao.
And then I focus on one fic each week (if there isn’t an event going on that I’m writing boatloads for) and before I sit down to write the next chapter, I reread the previous one. And then I make an outline for the chapter I’m getting ready to write so I know what’s going to happen over the course of hte chapter. And once that’s done, I get to make the magic happen and actually write the chapter which will go through a reread and round of edits before I post it the next week.
So yeah. That’s basically my schedule minus the unhealthy writing habits that we don’t need to talk about because unhealthy writing habits whom? Unrealistic. Blocked.