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Do you write your stories start to finish, or do you write scenes out of order and then assemble them in the proper order?

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Generally speaking, I lean toward working from the beginning to the middle and end. It’s a sensible, natural flow for a story, I find, though that isn’t always the case. Sometimes an idea comes to me and I can tell immediately that it isn’t at the start. Depending on the nature of the particular scene or story element, I might feel the need to flesh it out. This could be because I find it too compelling to ignore, and the urge to explore it and expand on it – before and after – overtakes me.

In other instances, I can’t see how things need to play out beyond the scene I’ve got in my mind. So I will write the scene and around it with the view that I might uncover more of the story this way. It really does vary from story to story, and rather than try to follow some specific rules, I just write as it feels right in the moment.