No need to apologise! I enjoy questions/messages and I'm so grateful that there are people who read and enjoy the stuff I write as much as you do!

That's a difficult question and to be honest, I think it depends on the day. I change mediums and approaches every now and then. For a while, I did write with music. I'd just put on a random playlist of songs I like and go for it. Sometimes I can't do that. More recently, I've been needing quiet to get the words out. Sometimes I change how I'm writing. For a couple weeks recently, I was doing all my writing on pen and paper because nothing would flow on computer. So I basically just follow what gets the words flowing.

There are a lot of people who tell me I write quickly. I agree in some ways, not in others. Any chaptered fic is written in full before I start posting, so it gives the illusion that I'm working quickly, but I'm not. It's already done. But I do still write at a decent pace. I've always thought that this is because I don't think too deeply most of the time, I just let it flow. And I don't spend a lot of time editing, either. What gets posted is generally what's left after one read through of the draft. It could be so much more polished, but it would take more time than I care to invest when I have so many more stories I want to tell.

Stories aren't always written as they come along, but sometimes an idea bites and I have to drop everything to work on it. I find myself being the most productive when I do writing sprints and pomodoros, particularly with other writer friends. I don't know how helpful that is. A lot of my writing is pretty fluid, and 'no thoughts, just go'.

Oh my gosh this is one of the nicest messages ever??? Thank you so much 😭

Structure really depends on the story for me. Generally, my ideas start with a little moment and I build off of that. With oneshots, there aren't generally very many more moments to build around it, so I will often just have a vague idea of the start, middle, and end of the story and I'll just go for it. For longer stories, I will write out a dot point outline of all the things I want to have in the story and the basic order of things, just to make sure I don't forget, but the outline is always something pretty open. If the boys want to go off on a tangent, I won't stop them. I think that's probably the most important thing in regard to imagery/emotional insight. I let the boys ramble. I let them have their inner monologues and their minor breakdowns. And this can all happen while story beats are happening in order to keep the momentum of the story going, but I think it's really important that they have that time to internally voice what they're going through. Otherwise, it's harder to empathise, I think.

Honestly, a lot of my writing is being aware of what I want from the scene, but letting the boys guide me through it. Did I want them to kiss there? No, but did they decide that was a necessary addition? Absolutely, and who am I to say no?

I also will write a lot of dialogue beats out ahead of time. I find that dialogue for scenes will come to me long before I get there, so I write them out so I won't forget. With my current WIP, I have four dialogue strings sitting in my notes to be used. But yeah I guess I'm mostly a vibes kind of writer. I follow where the vibes take me.