This week my goal is to outline the story I plan to write for scifibigbang and start writing it. So far I have done exactly nothing to help me reach that goal, unless writing an unrelated drabble for the fandom in question counts.

I never start actually writing a story until I know two things: how it starts and how it's going to end. That way I don't run into the problem of not knowing where I'm going when I get caught up in the middle of it. Sometimes the ending changes as I work my way through the story, but I never start without an idea of what the conclusion will be. Sometimes I do write the last chapter or scene out, sometimes I just outline key points as a reminder, and sometimes I just play it by ear and hope I can remember what I had planned.