User blog:Richie-Bean/Best way to plan out a Survivor fanon boot order?

Ahoy!

So I'm beginning my fanon: Survivor: Fuerteventura and I'm fairly happy with the contestants I made. I've begun writing day one and I can already see that I'm enoying writng about certain characters and not others. Some of the fun characters were ones that I imagined would go early, while less interesting characters I had planned to make go further. As I near the end of day 1, I feel like I need to start finalising my boot order so I can move forward with a story that makes sense. I read some tips somewhere that suggested the boot order be all planned out in advance.

I have also seen a poll that suggests that the one thing that people like to see the most in fanons is character development. That being said - should I alter my original boot order I had in mind to allow the more interesting characters to develop more? I think a huge issues with fanons, as an author, is maintaining interest in your own season, and I think to do that I need to keep them around - not necessarily until the end, but long enough to have some sort of story arc that doesn't just last one or two episodes.

Feel free to give me your thoughts! I will no doubt take ages getting through day 2 and 3... so there is plenty of time to figure this out!