>>57632424Personally, my writing process is:
-Have basic idea
-Plan out 'big' moments and scenes that are the core of your story. The awesome fights and dramatic centerpieces that you want to be the highlights that everything else lifts up. This will help keep you motivated because you'll want to keep writing to reach these moments as well as giving you a clearer understanding of when your story will end once you've completed them all to your satisfaction.
-Start writing with your 'core' scenes in mind. Develop characters, events, and themes that will ultimately inform and improve your core scenes. You can be fast and loose here as this is less about 'reaching the highlight scenes' and more 'writing fun and interesting scenarios that will make your highlight scenes even better'.
-Try to come up with a core theme or two and keep it in mind throughout writing as sort of a soft railing to keep your story centered. Not everything needs to fit witthin that theme, but keeping it as a casual idea will help keep your story feeling cohesive since it all keeps somewhat linked.
-Don't be afraid to massively change your original plans. Your characters might end up developing in ways you don't expect, or the logic of your story leads away from your original intentions. Being flexible is good and you'll likely come up with something betterbto replace what you changed.
This is how I write as somebody who prefers to let the story flow as it goes.
