When I first started this fanfic, I rewatched the whole series because it had been a while since I’ve seen the show. But after that and I’m sure I got the general idea of everything, I sort of just start planning and only really rewatch the very important parts in my story. I feel that rewatching parts is a commitment that’s not fully necessary because it’s like the difference of a 90% and a 93%, like they’re both still passing but I feel like if I’m planning out this story it being a 93% instead of a 90% is good on the soul.
I do agree with it all being practice and up to interpretations, it’s infact one of the pro’s of it. There’s interpretation of characters that I wouldn’t have ever thought of but that make sense and there’s fun stories with parts of their canon personalities but not all of it (idk if I explained it that well). It’s an aspect of fanfic that I haven’t thought about but it’s cool now that I have.
I’m planning on building this as I go. So that this becomes a massive information hub of everything I discuss/know about writing productivity wise. It’s nice seeing plans that’s been in my mind for weeks coming to reality.
I’ve also been playing around with a YouTube channel critiquing fanfics/writing in general as a means to an end to get to see how good writing ticks so to speak. If that happens, I’ll make a videos section in the doc and put my YT videos in it too.