Just want to offer some insight on my own, personalized, and highly inefficient writing process. Now you too can procrastinate badly and develop horrible writing habits in just 20 easy steps:
1. Get Idea
2. Forget idea/get different idea
3. Remember first idea and instantly compose a whole scene in my head
4. Repeat steps 1-3 an arbitrary number of times
5. Feel frustrated that none of these scenes fit together
6. Write actual outline
7. Holy shit it DOES fit together
8. Write 60-80% of story
9. Get bogged down by one scene that I don’t know what to do with
10. Give up, work on something else
11. Enough time passes to erode emotional attachment to what I’ve written
12. Re-read draft
13. Get new idea that...
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