i pretty much only write fic so idk if that’s different from what you’re looking for, but i really try to like. take the character’s approach to things in canon and break down how i could see their personality leading them to that, if that makes sense? almost a working backwards sort of thing?

then you can use those building blocks to see a way forward for things that didn’t happen in canon. for example, one thing that i got in mind very early when learning to write fran was that earlier in the series, she would need to be able to justify anything nice she did with something about how