Pairing Meme

via andraste. Like her, I can't resist, despite being over-memed.

Give me a pairing [I might have some thoughts about] and I will tell you:

1. What they most commonly do during sex
2. Who has prettier hair
3. What they argue about most often
4. Who'd cope best if the other one died
5. The happiest plausible happily-ever-after I can think of for them.

30 Days of Fan Fiction Meme, Day 19

19 – When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?

I never write down an idea for further use, unless it's a story detail or a line I don't want to forget. Then, I don't do it often enough and lose a lot that way. Sometimes I sit down and write the story almost right away. Sometimes (more commonly), I ruminate until the story is more-or-less written, or thoroughly outlined, in my head. This happens with both original and fan fiction, but it happens a lot more with fan fiction because in fan fic, I can ruminate over vignettes that don't require plotting. In original fic, at least 75% of the mental work has to be plot work, and I never get plot plot bunnies, so that process is a lot of sitting down and staring at blank screens and intensive freewriting and outlining to try to figure out something to hang my story on. Hate it. I love plot bunnies though.

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