P: It depends on the fic! A lot of the <3k-ish things I write I write because I get into a Mood about a specific scene, and want to get it down on paper/screen, with not much planning involved at all. Longer than that, I tend to do the same thing I do in my D&D sessions: have a few things I want to hit for sure, but let the story find its way there on its own.
R: For fanfic, Nat and Nina for sure, though I think that may be more mutual enabling than anything. Elsewise, I am p firmly embedded in the Shirley Jackson/Angela Carter/Jeff Vandermeer School Of Weird (I don't think anyone else actually lumps them together in that category, but).
S: Nah, I'm not really a tropey writer - I'm character-grounded more than anything. A lot of fandom tropes tend towards romance/getting together, and a lot of them came from dudeslash fandoms that I never had even a passing interest in. Uh, are vampire AUs and body horror and nature that wants to eat you fandom tropes? That's all I write these days whoops. Maybe enemies to lovers, though even that that's usually 'enemies to lovers because the ~hero one turned and/or they exist in weird grey obsession-and-importance-but-not-romo-love areas'.
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R: For fanfic, Nat and Nina for sure, though I think that may be more mutual enabling than anything. Elsewise, I am p firmly embedded in the Shirley Jackson/Angela Carter/Jeff Vandermeer School Of Weird (I don't think anyone else actually lumps them together in that category, but).
S: Nah, I'm not really a tropey writer - I'm character-grounded more than anything. A lot of fandom tropes tend towards romance/getting together, and a lot of them came from dudeslash fandoms that I never had even a passing interest in. Uh, are vampire AUs and body horror and nature that wants to eat you fandom tropes? That's all I write these days whoops. Maybe enemies to lovers, though even that that's usually 'enemies to lovers because the ~hero one turned and/or they exist in weird grey obsession-and-importance-but-not-romo-love areas'.