Your first paragraph is word for word what I do. The whole mulling over in my head for weeks before actually writing anything. Sometimes I'll mull, then outline, then go back to mulling. Whole conversations need to be thought out, and then I mull and outline around them.
I can't do the draft thing (which sounds very smart), because my biggest problem is a tendency to blather. Once I've cut something, I need to cut it irrevocably, lest it creep back in. It's hard enough for me to be ruthless about cutting. My only saving grace is that I can't remember it once it's cut (which just goes to show what blather it was), so keeping old drafts would be a nightmare. I mostly write sequentially, but sometimes I get a little bored during transitions, so I'll leave a few blank lines to remind myself that I need to come back to patch up something.
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Date: 2011-08-15 09:49 pm (UTC)I can't do the draft thing (which sounds very smart), because my biggest problem is a tendency to blather. Once I've cut something, I need to cut it irrevocably, lest it creep back in. It's hard enough for me to be ruthless about cutting. My only saving grace is that I can't remember it once it's cut (which just goes to show what blather it was), so keeping old drafts would be a nightmare. I mostly write sequentially, but sometimes I get a little bored during transitions, so I'll leave a few blank lines to remind myself that I need to come back to patch up something.