Check-in, day 18

[insignia]

How's it going, writers?

• Wrote
• Edited
• Planned
• Posted
• Sent to beta
• Thought about a fic
• Something else

Discussion: Do you write your stories/chapters from beginning to end, or do you prefer to write scenes out of order and rearrange them later?

Comments

[samuraiter]

Another planning day, but I'm going to have to do something with all those plans sooner or later.

I generally write from a rigid outline, and I only go out of order on the scenes if I get very badly stuck.

[linaewen]

Haven't done any writing, as yet -- still thinking and planning.

I am very chronological, and my writing outline is set up that way, too. So I usually go from beginning to end. However, I do sometimes work on certain scenes ahead of time if I am inspired, so they are out of order. But they are often not fully written, so I tweak them and write them properly in the right context.

[mareel]

I'm completely non-linear. I might have a very general outline or scene list for something long, but I'm as likely to write a drabble end-first as anything else. I read books and magazines that way too. I put all the parts together at the end like a puzzle.