I normally write chronologically, with the occasional exception. It's easier if I'm writing from an outline (very rare for me unless the story has a lot of planning going into it, or I'm writing an essay), and it simplifies the process. Writing the beginning, then the middle, then the end of a story is easier than writing the end, then figuring out the beginning and middle, or vice verse x 2.

However, if there's an idea for a story that I'm writing that I just can't get out of my head, and it's really starting to flesh out, but it doesn't come until much later chronologically, a lot of the time I'll write down a lengthy description of what's going to happen, or, if I'm feeling up to it, write out the entire scene. I've never worried about the scene eventually contradicting something that may come before it as the plot possibly shifts or characters change, as it's never too difficult to make a few edits. And if it's a really good idea that I want to include, it's always worth it.

I tend to end up with an idea from the middle or the end, and then work the rest out from that. I am not very good at thinking of the beginning first as I tends to cause me to lose interest. If I am working towards the first idea, which is in the middle, then it gives me something to look forward to and thus keeps me interested. Making everything come together into that idea is probably the most rewarding part of creating for me ~ Smiles ~

Dranz

Guess I'll probably be the only one who answers, no.

I've only really wrote a story in my life that I think has any good plot in it, and I remember the very first part that I wrote for it was the end and then a couple of scenes in the middle and a long time before the beginning. I did that because the story came to my mind while I was listening to a song and the very first scenes that pop out where the final ones so heh yeah.

I'm so copying this format for my next cop-out.

I write chronologically. It's just how I always have, and I'm comfortable with it. If I Have an idea for a scene that I know I really want to do, I just keep it in the back of my mind until I get there.

So that's me.

The stuff I'd write chronologically is right now still nebulous enough that attempting to stay in timeline would become a chore after a while. Also, since I still feel the strong need to improve by leagues, as it were, I tend to just take scenes I see and go with them until I stop seeing.

There will be a point where I switch off, though. (^_^)

I write chronologically 99 percent of the time. The only time I waver from that is when a scene has built up powerfully in my head, and I'm afraid I'll lose the image if I wait too long to write it.

Chronologically, every single freakin' time. I have tried to plan things, but when I get to the points where I'd use them, the story has changed so much that I wonder why I bothered in the first place.

I do both. I'll have my base idea and then if it's long enough to be more than a few chapters, I'll try to outline as much as I can so I don't lose the content. Then I'll go and usually start from the beginning with writing the actual story-story, accompanied by random scenes I think will possibly work from the continuum. It both helps and hinders sometimes, since there's often nothing written to connect the loose scene from the rest of the story for months. -_-'

One-shots though, I usually just write *BAM* down in often one sitting.