Write Away

I appreciate the idea of outlining, but somehow I never actually do it. I usually just make things up as I go, but I also don't usually write very long stories. I prefer to just play in my sandbox, writing scenes out of order here and there and then just posting them online. This has resulted in some weird retcons (characters who were supposed to be dead turning out to have faked their deaths, etc) but it doesn't bother me because of the sandbox format. It's not a great system for anything that I'd want to publish traditionally or even to gain an audience online, but it's fun and that's where I'm at with my writing right now.

The only longer pieces I've finished have been NaNoWriMo projects and all of those were just thrown together, usually based on an idea I had at 11:59PM on Halloween.