I'd love to hear from you on how you write. As for me, when I write it's by the seat-of-my-pants. I don't do outlines, but sometimes think they would help. It makes me wonder if the character voices that talk to me would be mad that I have constrained them. Even when I know how the chapter is going to start, and what I perceive is the direction, it still changes. The rest of my thoughts fall to the wayside and the story unfolds with every keystroke. The picture in my mind is stop-n-go as I write. I test the direction and then put it to paper. In my last story, I planned on Kirk being a bad guy, now he has a big role to play. It never would have happened in an outline. What do you think?