#bc the amount of emails i send myself a plot points to includ/rmr is ridiculous

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I'm so curious about your writing process, could you please shed some light on how you approach it?

Aside from already having a vision for the plot, do you have ideas about scenes you want to include and then write the chapters around them, so to speak? Or is it more like, "the goals of this chapter are to reach this and this checkpoint with each character," and fill in the blanks like that?

Sorry, I have no clue how writing is done, but I enjoy your writing so much that I really wanted to ask! 🐒

I don't recommend the way I write to anyone ever but to be honest, I go off of vibes a lot.

I have a vague outline in my notes with rough chapter numbers attached and pivotal moments that push the plot in different directions (the cheating reveal, who ???? is, the choices you can make in response to the cheating and starting a new route/what happens during them or choosing a career, the setting changing, mc's family appearing)

the rest is kind of improvised. I have a couple long scenes/convos written and saved in a doc and go from there but I've never been someone that managed to write a full chapter outline beforehand/went into details and stuck to them (I wish I did though lmao)

at the beginning of starting a new chapter I look at my IF outline and decide how far I want the plot to progress and how to make that happen. then I write down every new idea I have for a chapter at that moment and decide whether to shift a specific interview to a later chapter or if they should continue the tour then/how long they stay in a city and what happens during those scenes/what should be revealed about R and mc or any of the other ROs during one-on-one scenes/if a new character introduction makes sense.

editing is where I go in and take note of the details I included/side plots i should expand on and include them into my outline to remember later on! so the outline is kind of filled out as I write.

which is. bad. but it worked for all my projects so far and it hasn't failed me yet! :)