*smile*

[alixtii]

I found the notebook that had the Buffy/Giles in it! Now I'll just need to transcribe those portions, not have to recreate them from scratch (not that it would be difficult to do so, but one is never satisfied with it as much when one writes it the second time, because one always has an idealized version of the first time--as I'm sure you all know

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[alixtii]

Objectively speaking, the two versions are probably always about the same--indeed, when I find the first version again afterwards, just how similar the two are is almost always shocking. I have two notebooked versions of a TLiH scene (one where Fr. Marcus picks up Faith, Kennedy, and Maddy at the airport) which are almost exactly the same, even the points which I thought were new and innovative. It's scary

[alixtii]

If I'm writing for a 'thon (and pretty much everything I post anymore is for a 'thon), I make sure I have some idea of where the story's going before I start writing, because I don't have time the night before (or, more commonly, the day of) to explore. When I'm working on other pieces, I might let myself explore, but less so than when I started writing fic; usually I do most of that in my head. I guess there's a sense in which I always have that "first draft" in my head, though, when I'm writing for a 'thon