Thank you for your kind words! Even if your writing career was short lived I hope you're enjoying other creative pursuits too.
Oh man I could talk writing meta and methodologies all day, I don't mind the question at all.
For this fic, I have to admit that my outline was very very threadbare after the first few chapters - I had some notion of three major obstacles to overcome in Cloud and Genesis's relationship (Tifa, Weiss, and Sephiroth) as well as wanting to explore how the public would react to a new clone threat in the aftermath of Dirge of Cerebus and... that was pretty much it. I wound up mostly writing it chapter by chapter, and only looking at most two chapters forward while writing, then going back later and fixing anything that clashed with the direction the story wound up going.
One thing I initially started with though was that Genesis was upfront with his search for Weiss from the beginning, and they were much more cooperative on the matter, but it felt OOC on both sides so that was something that got changed. The Church getting destroyed was also something last minute which then obviously made big changes to the ending because limiting their supply of water meant Genesis had to make a choice, whereas initially Weiss was going to get cured by dunking him in the pond and Cloud wasn't going to get possessed. Stuff like that.
Not a great method! I got stuck a lot (writing myself into corners/making the story boring) because of this, and while it seemed to have worked out okay in the end, things would have gone a lot more smoothly if I had a clearer outline from the start. That said, I still do this, which is why I haven't posted anything for ages. ;__;
Thanks for dropping a comment! I forget that LJ exists lately but gosh I miss some of the great discussions we can have on here.
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Thank you for your kind words! Even if your writing career was short lived I hope you're enjoying other creative pursuits too.
Oh man I could talk writing meta and methodologies all day, I don't mind the question at all.
For this fic, I have to admit that my outline was very very threadbare after the first few chapters - I had some notion of three major obstacles to overcome in Cloud and Genesis's relationship (Tifa, Weiss, and Sephiroth) as well as wanting to explore how the public would react to a new clone threat in the aftermath of Dirge of Cerebus and... that was pretty much it. I wound up mostly writing it chapter by chapter, and only looking at most two chapters forward while writing, then going back later and fixing anything that clashed with the direction the story wound up going.
One thing I initially started with though was that Genesis was upfront with his search for Weiss from the beginning, and they were much more cooperative on the matter, but it felt OOC on both sides so that was something that got changed. The Church getting destroyed was also something last minute which then obviously made big changes to the ending because limiting their supply of water meant Genesis had to make a choice, whereas initially Weiss was going to get cured by dunking him in the pond and Cloud wasn't going to get possessed. Stuff like that.
Not a great method! I got stuck a lot (writing myself into corners/making the story boring) because of this, and while it seemed to have worked out okay in the end, things would have gone a lot more smoothly if I had a clearer outline from the start. That said, I still do this, which is why I haven't posted anything for ages. ;__;
Thanks for dropping a comment! I forget that LJ exists lately but gosh I miss some of the great discussions we can have on here.