Oh, yeah! I mean, not entirely, if it's a TV-based fandom it'll be a lot more visual, and early on there'll be pretty formless events that I don't have words for yet (I often don't have visuals for those either, though) but my brain's always been pretty verbal-oriented, and when I'm working from books it usually comes to me mostly in words, already.

And yeah, I'm usually pretty solitary as a creator. Partly I had it tamped into me at a young age that nobody cares about your dumb stories okay and/or talking about it is an excuse for not writing about it - both of which are probably wrong but tell that to my stupid brainweasels. I do talk things out occasionally if someone's really enthusiastic, but I've also found that telling the story to someone usually satisfies my 'must get the story out' urges, and then I lose the need to write it down.

I think if I ever seriously tried to write a super-long novel-length fic again, I'd probably benefit from having cheerleaders/alpha readers as I write, just to keep the motivation up, but I'm such a flake when it comes to writing I feel guilty about even asking. :/ I'm usually too much of a flake about it to use beta readers properly, even.