Well, sometimes I start at the beginning, especially if the fic doesn't have that many scenes, but I usually won't have decided that's the beginning yet and tend to end up changing it in one way or another. I mean, if I'm writing post-NFA or something, I often won't have worked out the specifics of the world I'm in until I've done a couple of scenes, so I can't write the beginning because I don't know what the audience needs to be aware of. (By the end I will usually know far more than the reader can find out without scrutinising every word people say, but that's another story...) But then I'm a ridiculously slow writer sometimes, in that bits of stories will sit on my computer for ages before getting turned into something else - I think my seasonal_spuffy story for this round is something of a personal record, because its first incarnation is over two years old now!
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