#i remain committed to writing stupid little funny scenes and scattering them like confetti throughout this fic

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the last chappie of beasts was soooo good and soooo long. so of course you're probably going to bless us with another super long chapter for #5 right??? how is it coming along, if i may ask? i'm super excited for what's to come!

Thank you so so much anon!!! 💞

Chapter five is coming! It actually (whisper it) has some of my favourite scenes I've written in it: some scenes I've had in the tank for a while but haven't quite known what to do with, and others that I wrote specifically for Beasts and have been excited to finally get to use. Right now I'm in the fun but extremely chaotic scene-and-flashback writing stage, where I write a bunch of little scenes out of order. And then when I've got them into a shaggy workable shape I can copy and paste them into one big doc and start to move them around and play with them and see if I can discipline them into one discrete chapter and start to play with pacing and shape etc. The other day I finally did myself a favour and built myself a storyboarding spreadsheet to more systematically track the different themes across chapters, and, although it was an absolute ball-ache to do, it has like solved a lot of my problems, lol. Storyboarding works, they weren't lying, who knew! You absolutely hate to see it!

On length - I'm actually genuinely concerned I don't know how to write a short chapter. Did you see those 'microfics' I did! I was taking the piss! Imagine being able to be concise. ✨ Imagine ✨ I'm staring at this spreadsheet looking at the errrrrr twenty four themes I want to track across this damn fic and wondering why I am so consistently such a dumb dumb bitch who makes life hard for myself

#imagine if i drop chapter five now and it's 1500 words and half of those are just another pretentious poem about claws i found lmao #i remain committed to writing stupid little funny scenes and scattering them like confetti throughout this fic #so we will never be getting short chapters i fear #me stuffing dumb jokes and endless letters between harry and ginny into every chapter laughing maniacally #thank you forever for reading anon! #beasts #ask #writing