8, 14, 20, 25
8 and 25 I already answered with other asks, but for the rest...
14. At what point in writing do you come up with a title?
Because I am a plotter, and tend to know what’s happening far in advance, a lot of the time I have one from the start and it usually doesn’t change. Occasionally I have a working title and change when it’s mostly complete. Often I use song lyrics because I like the phrasing. It’s rare, but sometimes I don’t have a title until posting and then get stumped on what to call a fic (summaries are usually what I struggle with).
20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)
Ahh, my mind goes blank... Um, if I write AU’s I love writing in canon details as easter eggs or canon details with a twist if possible, but I can’t think of specifics right now. As far as symbolism goes, mine usually crops up fairly organically when I work on a theme in a fic, related to my poetry background where that is important. I think I generally love to be able to rework and make larger the themes from canon, callbacks to small mentions for a character that canon might forget. Characterisation is very important to me, so if there’s something in canon that seems weird for a character I would tend to try to find the Watsonian/in-universe explanation and explore that through fic and make it part of their character development even if the show handwaves it away. I feel a special kind of satisfaction at figuring out that kind of thing, making it make sense to me at least but hopefully also to any readers.
As far as leaving clues for future, that’s not been relevant so far in any fics but I do have 1 fic in progress (One Way Or Another) that’s more plotty where certain things will work like that (comments early on work into the setup of several later plot points) and that does excite me to be able to do, though I may worry what if I am making it too obvious. But I totally look forward to seeing with that WIP whether anyone sees any of it coming. Also have a plan there for a fortune cookie phrase for each chapter, for an in fic reason, and I want each of those to hint at a coming event and I’ll be interested to see if that entertains or annoys people. Questions here.