I wrote a story called Chevachee quite early on in my fic writing, which essentially establishes the premise on which all my later Fanged Four stories rely. The basic premise is that it is difficult for a vampire to hunt, and the interesting thing is that very few people who have read my stories and commented seem to have noticed this idea or care about it. Yet I know I couldn't write the stories I do without it because everything else is dependent on that.

I use my meta very much to explore ideas that I will later use in my fic. And I sometimes get cross if I have to explain something in-story which I feel I have already explained in a meta - that's unreasonable of me, I know, but a secret part of me wishes I could just link across to the meta essay.

But overall I am a world-builder. All my ideas are very interlinked. I will add but very, very seldom am I willing to take away. So in that sense every single fic is justified by the ones that have gone before. Even the way-out-on-a-limb AU one has some related ideas.