#but no! pure silly inspiration means I accidentally wrote 15k in one week for a fic not at all related to any of my serious fics lmao

[tennessoui]

Kit!! I’ve reread all your fics cause I was missing you during your break and was wondering — what occupies your brain more? One shots set in the GFFA or multi chapter aus? I love when you post what seems like spontaneous one shots of a silly little moment in the GFFA, but then you’ll have these long elaborate plots of obikin set in another universe that you slowly work through chapter by chapter

you missed me during my lil break ? 🥺 🥺☺️

you reread all my fics during my lil break?? 😯😵 that’s a lot of words!!!

and this is a really good question!! I think for me, the way my brain works is that I’m not thinking about a fic unless I’m actively about to write it or am writing it—that’s why it feels like such a big deal to me when an ao3 fic/au gets a Google doc because if it’s not literally open as one of the tabs in my browser or im not actively answering an ask about it, I’m liable to forget, no matter how interested I am in the prompt/fic

(this is also why my browser is a mess with like 6 or 7 open Google doc tabs right now tbh)

so the silly oneshots I have, both gffa and not, definitely consume my time and mind when I’m writing them but then after they’re done, I don’t think about them as much because it’s posted and over — and I’m writing something else. The longer, multi-chapter fics probably take up more room in my mind because they’re something I have to plan or at least something I have to continuously write

And in general, I think writing a chapter update for a fic takes me longer than writing a one shot (especially a silly one shot) because I do want the tone to match the rest of the fic & the characterization to track & I want to make sure that I’m setting up action for the next chapter/that there’s filler but that in general we’re moving forward with the story