i hyperfixate on an idea and word vomit -- ok but in all seriousness i don't have a very structured writing process. occasionally if the plot's a bit messy i'll write it out on a draft, but most of the time there's just 1. the main idea 2. certain scenes that MUST go in 3. the word/language that i want to play on for that particular fic. a lot of the times i'll also have sudden burst of inspiration for certain sections and metaphors that i'd like to put in and they all go into a document i like to call my junk doc: it's where there's just chunks of text floating around for me to shuffle around and rearrange as i write the fic. a lot of times, because of this, towards the end of the fics it's just a matter of sliding in pieces and sections like a jigsaw puzzle. also curiously enough i'm someone who always has a very clear idea of how the ending will go, so 90% of the time the ending is the first thing i write and it just sits in the junk doc until i'm done with everything else. like rn my frieren au final scene is completely done but i have everything in between that i need to fill in... sigh 😭😭