User blog comment:Mroddy/Writer's Workshop: Organic Elimination Orders/@comment-1874924-20150726030736/@comment-1874924-20150727031637

From what I've heard, feeling as strongly about your characters as you do is probably more common than you think. Many authors think of their characters as their children, in a sense, and this is one reason why some authors don't like fanfics and may even impose fanfic bans.

As for writing scenes in advance as inspiration comes to me, this is what enables me to foreshadow as "another story for another time" events that come to pass 20 or more chapters down the road. When you see that catch phrase, you can be sure not only that I have decided what's being foreshadowed, but also that I have the finished scene already in hand. The most extreme case of this is foreshadowing in the talent show auditions (episode #5) something that happens in the finale (episode #26). There's also an incident in the Hide and Seek challenge (episode #17) that's foreshadowed during the player intros (episode #1).