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[serria]

So, I've done a lot of plotting and organization for a story I'm working on, and it's to the point where almost all the scenes are charted and I know everything that is supposed to happen. But when I sit down to write, for some reason, it's a lot harder. I don't even know where to start. I think I honestly write a lot more naturally when I don't have any idea where the story is going to go, and I start at the beginning and see where it goes as I write. Unfortunately, that's a lot harder to do with long novels.

Do you guys tend to have everything plotted out before you write? Do you write from beginning to end, if so, or do you just write whatever scene you feel like writing and put it all together after?

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[perfectworry]

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.