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Mariah:
My main problem with my stuff is the fork in the road dilemma. I have an extreme difficulty with choosing one way and staying on it. With my first story that I ever wrote I remember the ideas just flowing through me. I still to this day have no idea where my ideas for The Risk came from. Plus I guess it helped that I had tons of reviews that told me how I was doing even though I already knew. God, that was so long ago.

I have this thing where I used to write out an outline before I wrote the chapter if I was ever blocked. Anyone ever tried that before? Basically like an overview of what I'm planning to write. I did that recently for truth and once I figured it was enough for a chapter or two I stopped and then started writing. Was kind of weird because as I was writing my head totally took a new direction. One I hadn't planned on doing. How odd is that? Does that ever happen to anyone here. Oh yeah, and I'm bilingual too. I spoke Russian and English around my house since I was 4. Sometimes the English gets jumbled up.

mare:
I never use outlines. I know a lot of people on here do though. It seems to stump more tha help me for some reason. I do tend to change direction within a story several times as I go as well. My endings usually happen how I intended them to be but the getting their never goes as expected. I guess it keeps me on my toes lol

Carter-Orange:
I find that I usually know how the story will end, but it's a bit of a magical mystery tour getting there, lol.  Sometimes I might have a rough idea of what'll happen along the way, but usually it's a surprise to me.

mare:
LOL that's half the fun. I feel like i'm improving when I write. Like a "Oh, he's doing what now?" Okay...unexpec ted but I can work with that!

RokofAges75:
I do outline for most of my stories, but what kind of outline I make and how detailed it gets depends on the story.  I have some outlines that are chapter by chapter or part by part, for Secrets of the Heart and my two collaborations, but usually I'm more of a timeline person. 

My Curtain Call outline is basically a timeline, with a bunch of research at the bottom.  The way I'm writing that story is, I'm God of the story, and I get to decide what situations to put my characters in.  But since they have free will, they get to decide how to react.  So I have various points along the way that are planned out and set in stone, but how the characters get there and what happens in between is decided chapter by chapter, as I'm writing.

Then I have Guilty Roads, with no outline whatsoever, only an idea in my head of where I'm going with it.  That scares me a little, but we'll see how it goes.

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