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I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

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

I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

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.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

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.