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

I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

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.

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

I always work from an outline.

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.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

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.