G - Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?
I usually write start to finish. When I write scenes out of order, it's usually because I can't wrap my brain around the whole thing, and then the bits just sit, sad and dejected, in my writing folder and never get finished/published.
The major reason for this is that I rely a lot on previously-established details to build my scenes; elaborating on/playing with motifs is a huuuuuuge part of my inspiration, and for that to be possible for me, I usually need to know the genesis of the motif, if that makes sense? They don't develop for me if I don't have a solid sense of timeline and the... emotional progression of where everything is at the different times the motif has been invoked.
That said, on a micro-level, like, within a given scene, sometimes my writing gets downright spiral-y. I'll write a thing in sequence, and then circle back around to make tweaks continually. I think it's part of my bad habit of editing-while-writing, but feels inevitable when it's happening, so I let it happen.
L - How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
Entirely depends on the fic. I had one particularly troublesome chapter of my first longfic go through something like four rounds of edits and beta reads, including a major re-work, before it ultimately got posted. But I also post a lot of things without more than a once-over for minor tweaks that I do myself.
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Date: 2019-02-09 09:43 pm (UTC)I usually write start to finish. When I write scenes out of order, it's usually because I can't wrap my brain around the whole thing, and then the bits just sit, sad and dejected, in my writing folder and never get finished/published.
The major reason for this is that I rely a lot on previously-established details to build my scenes; elaborating on/playing with motifs is a huuuuuuge part of my inspiration, and for that to be possible for me, I usually need to know the genesis of the motif, if that makes sense? They don't develop for me if I don't have a solid sense of timeline and the... emotional progression of where everything is at the different times the motif has been invoked.
That said, on a micro-level, like, within a given scene, sometimes my writing gets downright spiral-y. I'll write a thing in sequence, and then circle back around to make tweaks continually. I think it's part of my bad habit of editing-while-writing, but feels inevitable when it's happening, so I let it happen.
L - How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
Entirely depends on the fic. I had one particularly troublesome chapter of my first longfic go through something like four rounds of edits and beta reads, including a major re-work, before it ultimately got posted. But I also post a lot of things without more than a once-over for minor tweaks that I do myself.