Well, it's not like I'm all that great at writing longfic either. :P I have, what, 3 works over 10,000 words up, and none that hit 20,000? For me 'longfic' is still "anything over 3000 words. So that doesn't work all that well for me EITHER.
All the 10000+ words fics I've finish have had a pretty formalized structure to the scenes, though, which I think helps hold it in my brain? So the Pern AU was structured really closely around mating flight sequences in the Pern books; the Night in the Lonesome October fic had chapters with strictly alternating POVs, each of which had to happen on particular days, and had to call back to what was going on in the equivalent chapter in canon; and the Bruce Banner fic had a pattern of "Bruce talks to Tony/Bruce wanders around brooding on his own/Bruce talks to someone who is not Tony/Bruce broods some more/Bruce talk to Tony" etc. I'm doing something similar in the GotG fic that will hopefully break 10,000.
I think having some patterned structure to fall back on helps me hold longer stories in my head (it certainly makes me more confident about getting them down on the page in the right order) although it's probably limiting what I can write and someday I need to stop relying on it...
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All the 10000+ words fics I've finish have had a pretty formalized structure to the scenes, though, which I think helps hold it in my brain? So the Pern AU was structured really closely around mating flight sequences in the Pern books; the Night in the Lonesome October fic had chapters with strictly alternating POVs, each of which had to happen on particular days, and had to call back to what was going on in the equivalent chapter in canon; and the Bruce Banner fic had a pattern of "Bruce talks to Tony/Bruce wanders around brooding on his own/Bruce talks to someone who is not Tony/Bruce broods some more/Bruce talk to Tony" etc. I'm doing something similar in the GotG fic that will hopefully break 10,000.
I think having some patterned structure to fall back on helps me hold longer stories in my head (it certainly makes me more confident about getting them down on the page in the right order) although it's probably limiting what I can write and someday I need to stop relying on it...