Writing Out of Order?
Hey there TATSonians!
I'm working on my story You Smell Like Home, after a few months of blockage and generally zero motivation to write anything at all. I only have one chapter out, and I started writing chapter 2 and then my muse just pooped out. So I've been going back over what I have this week, and I realized that what I had for chapter 2 really might end up happening in chapter 4 instead, because some other stuff needs to happen before I get there and I want to do a Jacob POV chapter in between. So I roughly outline what will be going down in chapters 2 and 3, and get to work on the actual chapter 2. Now, I have this argument scene which has turned into something completely other than what I was planning, but which is still relevant later on in the story. There wasn't supposed to be an argument there at all. Does this happen to anyone else?
I think this was the whole reason I stopped working on this story - things just aren't fitting where I think they should. I hate to go all SMeyer and shit, but it feels like I start off in the right direction and then the characters just take it some different way I hadn't thought of until I'm in the moment and then it doesn't work right there, but will fit somewhere else quite nicely.
I don't have a strict outline of the story because to me, if I outline every little detail beforehand, the story is no longer any fun to write. But I like to write in "order" and doing it out of order really bothers me, for some reason.
Anyway, I guess the point of this whole sleep-deprived rant is to ask how you all do it. Do you write out your scenes "in order"? Do you outline first? Or do you write scenes you know are important and piece them into order afterwards?