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[alinaandalion]

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[alinaandalion]

Well, I'm about halfway done with the chapter I'm supposed to be writing so I'll answer your question now. :)

If it's a one-shot, I normally start off writing long-hand. Like, the majority of my entries for Leverage bingo are written in a composition notebook because I could carry that around with me at school easier than my computer. I basically take the idea and just start writing, and I normally just go with whatever my mind throws at me since I'll edit later when I'm typing it up.

So, most of my one-shots are fully written in a few hours, shortest time going from about forty-five minutes to longest which would be maybe five hours.

Now, as a bonus, I'll tell you what I do with long fic.

With that, my plot bunnies tend to be a little unmanageable, so I've learned to let them kick around in my head for a little bit, writing down ideas and snippets of dialogue or exposition that come to me. I tend to sketch out a very basic outline that hits the major plot points.

Of course, I tend to change that outline at least three different times before the fic is finished, but that's part of the process. Once I get a good grip on where I'm headed, I sit down and write from beginning to end. I hate writing chapters out of order, so if I'm stuck on Chapter One, that's where I'll be for awhile until I work it out.

I have gotten to where I will write out of order inside the chapter if I'm having trouble with a particular scene. This is where I start constantly having conversations in my head, and if I really can't move forward, I go back to the outline, look at what movement I'm looking for from the characters, and that normally helps.

Okay, how do you deal with your plot bunnies? And, since I know you ship Parker/Eliot, how do you deal with the fact that your ship doesn't work with the canon of the show?