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I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.

I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to write because I just didn't outline, and I had no path.

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.