Snowflake 2026 #5

[visualjyushi]

In your own space, create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, a wishlist of sorts. 

Icons of my faves! — Vincent, Cloud (FFVII) | Prompto, Noctis (FFXV) | Sea Salt Trio (KH)

FFVII fic recs! — specifically looking for anything Gen (about Cloud or Vincent is a bonus), Aerith/Tifa, or Sephiroth/Genesis focused. I mostly read Cloud ships so any recs will most likely be new to me :)

Writing advice! — How do you choose the starting point of your fic/story? Sometimes I get an idea of how one might end but have no idea where to actually start it.

Comments

[matsushima]

How do you choose the starting point of your fic/story? Sometimes I get an idea of how one might end but have no idea where to actually start it.
I usually start with the first line, like it will come to me (sometimes literally in a dream) and that's where I'll start writing. (That isn't necessarily where the story starts, that's a question to ask yourself in revision!)

Since you're usually inspired by the end of the story, maybe see if there's a way you could start by foreshadowing or bookending the scene you're inspired by and working from there?

[visualjyushi]

Great points! I should definitely just write out whatever scene comes to me but I get too caught up in the overall picture sometimes. Of course, you can always work with something but not nothing.