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I'm a great believer in outlines.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

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 always work from an outline.

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

I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together.

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

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.

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.