Story Order/Chapters/Endings

I always write in order, but sometimes I'll get this idea and it's like "WHOAH!" so I have to write it, but it always throws me off course, so usually I stay in order.

I always write my chapters in order. I always know what;s gonna happen at the end, and the major plot points, but minor details kick my butt.

Not necessarily. It depends. Sometimes I get half a paragraph of the beginning written.
Then I’ll start jumping around and write here and there because I get ideas, just not in order.
Usually I’ll know how it’s going to end. Most of the time before I really know how it begins.

I used to write in order as I used to not prewrite anything and just posted chapter after chapter.
But then I began prewriting and also began jumping around a lot more. x]
Before I’d just sometimes draft things so I wouldn’t forget but now I write it out.
So yeah, I just work on whatever part of the plot I have the inspiration to write.

I almost always write my chapters in order, except for my first story. I thought up an awesome way to end it, wrote the ending, and then stopped writing the rest of the story. Still haven't finished it. : \

My other stories are all written in order, and I usually know the general direction the plot is going to go.

I hardly ever know the end of a story. I try to focus on what I'm writing next, and that's it. In the back of my mind I sort of have a plan... but not really.
I'm a horribly disorganized writer. :tehe:

I like to know what's going to happen in the very end, and I tend to write ideas for chapters out when I think of them. Sometimes I forget ideas I thought were great, so it's just better to write them out beforehand.
I'm clueless when it comes to the middle of a story though.

I write out of order. :tehe: I just find it easier. I'll feel like writing something that's happening in say, for example, chapter 4. Even though I haven't written chapter 3 yet and even though I know what I'm going to write in chapter 3, sometimes I'll want to write chapter 4 more than chapter 3. So chapter 4 will be written first, which then makes it so much easier to write chapter 3.

It just means that I don't update as often..:shifty

I start at the beginning, and write the first chapter or two, and then I write the last few parts, and fill the middle in.
It's kinda motivating, seeing the first parts and the last parts, knowing you have to connect them

[size=80I almost never write my chapters in order. I usually write about three, then go back and rewrite the hell out of them, especiall the first one. I always know how it's going to end, I never know what's going to happen in the middle, I only have a vague idea about what needs to happen. Then I imagine little scenarios that could happen in it, and write them.

i have fifty-two chapters in one of my stories (THE UMBRELLA CHECK) and still don't know where its going

I write my chapters in order, unless I have a really good scene in mind I don't wanna forget.
I actually didn't even know who the killer was going to be in my story until just recently. I just start something and hope it comes to me near the end. Which it did. Thank God :)

I usually take stories as they come. Sometimes I'll have a great idea for the ending, but that might change as the story progresses.

Sometimes I start stories because I'm in love with the idea, but I have no idea about the ending or the middle. . . :shifty
:XD

I recently had this thing about writing from the end to the beginning ^_^ or catching it in the middle of the story, then flashback-ing. Or like, halfway to the end, middle, end, and the last chap's the beginning :lmfao

/confusion

I always plan my story, I know the beginning, the middle the end, but not what happens in-between. I write what I know and then just let it go wherever it's going to go.

I write in order, always have. I generally have an idea of what's going to happen in the beginning and middle, but never really the end. I don't really know what's going to happen until I decide how the story itself will flow.

It really depends. Sometimes I'll just have one sentence and take it from there with no idea what will happen and I'll just go with the flow.
Other times I'll have a title and an ending before I even start.
If I'm in the shower or in class or on the bus or somwhere like that, I'll start to piece words together and if I was "writing" the ending in my head, I'd probably type that out before I wrote the beginning so that I wouldn't lose what I had.
If that makes sense. :shifty :tehe:

I just came up with this idea before.
I'm writing a Russell Brand story, and since he's a big fan of Morrissey, I looked up his songs, and came up with a whole plotline, just from song titles. :XD
I just can't seem to start the damn thing. :grr:

I think up a single scene for a beginning, and then a single scene for the end. Then, I think up random scenes for the middle, and leave huge gaping plot holes that are a real bitch to fill in later. The thing is, the middle always seems to work out in the order I think it up in. I never switch around scenes randomly. They always have a purpose for being where they are.

I don't always have an ending thought up for a story when I start it but with my main story, Last Life, I have a vague idea of what the ending should be like and I have the first 20 chapters (including the prologue) planned out, but the story is straying a bit from what I have planned.

I write my chapters in order most of the time. The only time I didn't was when I really wanted to write one of the chapters. But then I went in a wrote the chapters before it.

And I only know the ending when I plan out my stories, which I have begun to do more often. I personally like to know the ending before I even begin writing.