How exciting! If you want any support / cheerleading / commiserating while you write, hit me up!
I'm a mid-length fic writer (my longest is just shy of 50k) but I find anything longer than 5k needs a good outline. I tend to plan the order of all scenes and put the scene titles as headers in my gdoc, then tick them off as I write. Also, a separate planning doc with worldbuilding, character bios, etc, is a godsend when you're writing a longer fic, as upwards of 50 pages tends to crash gdocs.
Oh! And keep reminding yourself that there's nothing wrong with the odd short scene to describe passage of time". I got so stuck when writing The Full Four Seasons and almost abandoned it, until one of my betas said "you don't have to make every scene meaningful - fillers are fine". It was the best piece of writing advice I've ever received.
As for incentive to write without a deadline ... I have no idea, as I'm terrible at it. My long WIP is collecting dust without a deadline. I'm hoping posting a weekly word count update on DW will help to push it along. XD
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I'm a mid-length fic writer (my longest is just shy of 50k) but I find anything longer than 5k needs a good outline. I tend to plan the order of all scenes and put the scene titles as headers in my gdoc, then tick them off as I write. Also, a separate planning doc with worldbuilding, character bios, etc, is a godsend when you're writing a longer fic, as upwards of 50 pages tends to crash gdocs.
Oh! And keep reminding yourself that there's nothing wrong with the odd short scene to describe passage of time". I got so stuck when writing The Full Four Seasons and almost abandoned it, until one of my betas said "you don't have to make every scene meaningful - fillers are fine". It was the best piece of writing advice I've ever received.
As for incentive to write without a deadline ... I have no idea, as I'm terrible at it. My long WIP is collecting dust without a deadline. I'm hoping posting a weekly word count update on DW will help to push it along. XD