Four ways to write a great story

[truefaiterman]

I start as an outliner, covering every little detail to make sure how the story unfolds all the time, step by step...

Then I actually start writing and go NUTS.
I become an Edit-as-you-go. I change A LOT of what I outlined, and I'd say at the same time that I get a Seat-of-your-pants feeling that I don't even care if the story gets out of my hands (since I know myself and I know I'll just break everything later. I love messing everything).

Wow, I think I'm not any of those styles of writing, I'm just a messy guy...

[noeinan]

I'm definitely an outliner, but that is partly because I'm not much of a writer. I can come up with ideas, plan out a plot, and then get stuck on the actual writing/dialogue. ><

[Loveli]

I am an "edit as you go snowflake". I outline my main plot, conflicts and goals. I create my characters, their overal persinalities and backstories, that way I get to know them and their role in the story. Then I become a soft edit as you go. I don't edit one single scene 10 times before writing the next one, instead I write the scene edit it once, then I keep writing and then I sometimes stop and edit everything I have once (or 3 chapters or wathever feels rigth to edit). I, then, keep writing and going back to edit over and back to writing over and over until I finish writing and then edit until I'm happy.

That problem of feeling like the story is not advancing is completely true for me too...

[Katy133]

I'm a "Plan a little, write a little/Snowflake": I'll make up a loose outline/summary of the plot (partly to avoid plot holes and to help plan foreshadowing), and then I'll write it all in a "seat of your pants" style. I'll also write scenes out of order (I'll start with the scenes I feel are the most important/seems the most fun to write). A strange thing though is that I'll think of details for scenes before I even start writing the outline.