Ahh thank you so much! I really wanted it to read like you were watching a finale, so I’m really grateful it paid off. I had that in mind because I love episode 2.12 with how it flipped from past to present and you didn’t know what had fully happened until it’s revealed. And thank you for loving the bunker chapters, I’m very happy with them!
I’m definitely a planner, I couldn’t just wing it — especially with changing so much. What I did first was note down who I wanted A to be, major plot holes I wanted solved and what I needed to happen throughout, then I wrote scripts for the show with Halle included all the way until season 7. So I know exactly what happens in every chapter and I have done since season 3. I did that so I could know I could explicitly write out big things in the show (like Alex and Mary Drake, most of Sara Harvey, Mrs D’s death, Ezra in season four). Then, I go chapter-by-chapter writing it out properly because I know the bigger story is there/being told. It’s a lot of preemptive planning and notebooks that are full with everything! There’s a few things that were added in randomly, so might feel more rushed or not fully executed (Noel and Aria getting together wasn’t in my plans until I wrote 5.01, and I didn’t plan on bringing back Agent Cooper until I was writing the dollhouse chapters), but mostly it’s planned already. I’ve just got to write them out.