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And I'll go in the opposite direction, and declare that I have utter control freak tendencies. It's why I approach ficathons and challenges with caution. Outside influences - affecting my story? Hmmm... Not that I have all the details worked out before I set words to pixels, but I always know the basics first. Who, what, where, why. There are some minor exceptions - how I dealt with Alicia in Hazard for example, but generally I have it somewhere in my head well before it gets written. How may develop over the course of the story, but your approach would drive me bonkers. Clearly, it works for you, and that's the important thing. :-) Events sometimes get away from me, but not characters. I want all my puppets doing their bit, thank you very much indeed.

Possibly, I might write more if I was a bit more free and easy - except that I have absolutely no idea as to how to be free and easy. ;-) For me the fun is seeing something that was fairly inchoate take a form and a structure - end up telling a story.