I've started work on a new fic, a Teen Titans multichapter one. It'll be Beast Boy/Terra, possibly with some Robin/Starfire - I haven't decided yet.
Anyhoo...for those of you who are curious as to how my writing process works...
The first thing I do is to come up with a basic plot idea. This usually doesn't involve anything more than where it starts and who the main characters will be, and generally where it will end (this being one of the cases where I'm not yet certain of the ending).
Once I have that, I start writing out questions that need to be answered, or at least have their answers alluded to. I try to make that list as specific as possible so that I don't inadvertently leave anything out.
Something I always intend to do but never seem to quite get around to doing - and something that I'm determined to do with this story - is to write out a chapter-by-chapter plot outline. That way I know where each chapter will start and end, which characters will be in it, which questions will be answered and which will be raised, and hopefully how much dialogue I'll need versus how much narrative.
Then I'll start writing.
So, suffice to say, it may be awhile before the first chapter actually appears.
The point of the story is essentially that I was
extremely dissatisfied with the way "Things Change" happened. It was full of plot holes, and the ending was so abrupt that at first I thought - 'wait. That can't be right.'
So my fic's going to be AU from the end of "Titans Together." It will take place approximately two years after that episode; with the defeat of the Brotherhood of Evil and subsequently many of the other villains they've been combating over the years, the Titans suddenly have a lot of free time on their hands - the few remaining villains aren't much of a threat (for the purposes of the story, we're going to assume that Slade is still off in hiding somewhere, probably plotting the violent and painful demise of Robin and the Titans). Therefore, Cyborg creates for them all hologram generators - similar to the ones he himself used in "Deception" - so that the Titans can go out into Jump City and have fun without being recognized when they want to.
Beast Boy is out in the city one afternoon - in a music store or a coffee shop or something - when he runs into a girl that he swears is Terra. Only she has no idea who he is. He plays along and strikes up a conversation with her, and realises that she has honestly lost her memory - not just that she doesn't recognise him with his hologram on. So he befriends her, and --
Well, this is the point at which I stop knowing exactly where the story is going. Hence the question list and the chapter outlines. All I know about the rest of the story is that first they become friends, and then, after some as-yet-unknown period of time, romantically involved; and that, by the end of the story, she knows who he is and who she once was. Past that I don't know any of the details, including whether or not she regains her memory/powers, if she rejoins the Titans, etc etc.
If you're especially curious, you can read my question list...which has 92 items on it. XD Don't worry, none of them are very long. Keep in mind, though, if you do choose to read it, and you also intend to read the story whenever I actually get around to writing it, that some of what I'm doing may be given away by the list. You have been warned.
If not...*shrug* You get to wait. Hah hah. Actually, you get to wait anyway. Too bad for you. XD
And to any of you who just have this friended for my FMA ficbits...I apologise profusely, but the muses are motivating me to write Teen Titans right now, and to them I am a slave. I'll write the sequel to
"Healer" eventually, I promise, it just won't happen anytime soon.
Anyway.
( The questions are here... ) And oh yes, keep in mind that there's not much of an organizational system to the questions...I just sort of wrote them down as they came to me. Pardon the mess.
Have fun, and I look forward to having at least some of you reading the new Titans fic.
(No, it doesn't have a title.)