And I don't mean like the main protagonists of your romance novel, I mean do you have two OCs that are totally not destined to have any romantic ties in the story, but you think it'd be a fun and fabulous ship if it DID happen?
Since I'm writing a story that relies on teamwork dynamics/chemistry, its fun to think about the other potential relationships within the group.
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Haven't happened to me. I think I plan a lot what's going to happen in my stories so I just can't think out of it. Maybe a should, it could be a good creativity exercise.
I do. A lot hahahaha. There's a few canon ships and then there's me shipping the whole cast together with one another in AUs lmao. I just. Like exploring how things would work out a lot.
Hahaha, yes! Exploring in that way tends to be where the canon ships come from as well, I figure out what really works and who gels well together, and zero in on those. But I love just imagining and playing around with crack ships between my characters, it's heaps of fun.
Yeah, totally. There are only two canon ships in my story with so little progress going on while the characters are quite a lot. I just can't help imagining the other relationships between other characters. Like, there's no way these two don't have the hots for each other, right? It's so much fun.
Yes! I totally ship Taren and Eric and it makes me sad that it can never become real because Eric's story is seven years in the past
For my comic, yea I do, but it's important to me to have an instance where a female character and a male character remain platonic friends for the whole story, because you just don't get to see much of that. I mean, it getting more common in recent years, but there's a history of that not being the case. But because they're my characters, and whatever I say is canon, in the future they totally get together.
Not normally, usually the only pairings are cannon pairings. But recently I was working on a story and I had two characters were friends. But part of me really liked the idea of them together. And then the ending changed in a way that actually made that a possibility. My original plan was to just have their relationship be ambiguous, it could be interpreted as friendship or romantic. But then the ghost of queerbaitings past reminded me of all the times people have done that to ill effect, and I said screw it. They're cannon now.
For my project, I got a lot of canon ships as well, but sometimes I also think about what other ships could technically work and it's pretty fun imagining all the different "what if"-scenarios xD
Ahahaha, part of me wants to DENY that I do this. But I'll be honest--yeaaaah. 
I keep it to myself though. Nobody needs to know who I hardcore ship. lmao
I write a polyamorous trio. I ship all of them with each other so I hard I made it canon xD
I also ocasionally ship them with people outside the main trio, even if that relationship might never happen inside the story.
It's a like a horny 'what if...?' scenario. xD
Well, in a way, we ARE the Gods of their story, aren't we? So I can, and I will, ship them with all my power. Mwahahha 
Oh hell yeah I do!! It won't ever happen in canon since I'm challenging myself to not do a romance-centric story. I mean, come on. One girl who, through wacky circumstances, suddenly gets four attractive roommates? Absolute shipping fuel right there, it's kinda ridiculous.
For my actua one Die Instrumente Gottes, no I dont (adn havent done it never once for the apst 20 years but now taht Im actually drawing them -drools- well, I have had some temptations to draw them +slaps myself+ but is a BIG NO, unless is it on modern!Au setting as humans but I cant spoiler the reasons why ) +dies+
BUT
for my other story (future project) ASEDO, I ship everyone with everyone even if I have the main couple decided xD;;;
For sure!
Like I have two characters that have hooked up, but they certainly aren't meant to be in the main canon. The guy's long gone now in the story, and the girl has settled with her current two partners. But I still like drawing them together and writing interactions between them in AU pieces.
Is it bad that I've written short fanfic scenarios for my own characters for just this reason? Not to publish. Just for myself to get it out of my system. 
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I mean, there I am in the middle of a scene and I stop to think: "Gee, those three sure are friendlier than I had planned. Maybe ... just maybe...."
But it would completely change the character dynamic, the plot, and bust up my entire outline.
Save document, minimize it, open new document, begin the way it could go in an alternate love fest universe... 
I did have one like that but then all of my readers were shiping then and I started and I made it as cannon xD
YES.
I have my cannon ships all planned out, but I'm also fine with readers coming up with their own ships.
Yes. I used to draw cracky stuff of my two MCs before starting my comic, and I currently have this elaborate idea planned out for when I finish it. I want to do a big Kickstarter with the stretch goal being an exclusive crack softcore porn featuring them. Not really for horny reasons but because I want to delve into romantic relationships, sexuality and one of the characters learning/exploring healthy sex positivity, while also reclaiming their sexuality after escaping an abusive relationship. I thought it would be a fun thing for me and backers since it would be a super chill contrast to the main story, and character exploration is always fun.
Shipping while creating the main comic is strictly off limits for me though since I don't want anyone to get the idea that my comic is a romance, or that I condone the current relationships in the story.
Oh definitely. 
Sometimes they end up happening in canon, sometimes not, but I definitely think about them way too much.
