Does Anyone Else Write Out of Order?

This isn't for my NaNo (I'm trying not to go back to that for a little while) but for my pre-NaNo story, I wrote little scenes. I'm up to 30,000 words, but I don't know how to tie these scenes together into chapters.

I do; just write up the peices I know and have planned. That helps me figure out the rest of the story and my characters, and THEN I'll begin to write straight through (usually rewriting most of the out of order stuff so it fits better).

I try not to, but I have to admit that, yes, I often write out of order, just the scenes I want to write. After that, I am often too lazy to write the scenes I do not particularly want to write.

I'm currently working on my first out of order piece, I've never had the urge to write bits and bobs before, usually I do work straight through. It's kinda nice to just be able to come up with scenes and write them as I do it rather than having to constantly think about linking. Obviously I'll have to start linking them at some point but not yet...

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I have done that, but then I make a note of what should go in the middle. The problem is that I often end up with a story that looks like Swiss cheese by the time I get done with it, so I have to scrap most of it and go back to the beginning. On the other hand, it does help to know where the story is headed, so I can make sure it ends up there instead of, well, nowhere, which is what happened when I set out with no plan and then pretended I was writing in order.

Well, it's going to take a lot of rewriting no matter what method you use.

As for tying scenes together, remember that this is a novel. You have room to sprawl, to explore, to frolic, to delve into the characters' minds, to get side-tracked, and so on. I hope that makes sense.

I tend to write my scenes out of order a lot, just whenever a particular scene happens to be strong in my mind.
I tried to avoid it this time around, but that was only so I'd have an easy way to judge my NaNo progress versus how long the notes were (e.g. the entire story up to that scene lasted 1000 words in the notes, and the story draft was 10,000, so I managed a 1 to 10 word ratio so far).

Even then, I started skipping around, as I'd have scenes that amounted to "I want this to happen at this point in time, between these other two scenes, but I haven't quite decided how I want to write this scene".
Especially near the end of the month, when I had to put even more work into not falling behind on my total word count.

Aside from "tracking my progress," I don't have a problem writing out of order, just so long as I have something written somewhere that tells me the direction the story is meant to go, and a general idea of what was supposed to happen in those skipped scenes. (Amazing how forgetful I become if I take three years to finish a story, no? :D The notes help to get around that, and I still manage to forget things.)

Keep writing until you are done. Until it feels done. If you are writing thematically, then usually things will neatly tie together. If not, then you will have to put everything in order then rewrite it in linear order.

I always try not to for two reasons.
1-Its usually the scene I've been dying to write and when I'm done I start to lose intrest in the novel
2- when I combine them it comes out so scrappy I twitch b/c of character and situation development
Still I do it anyway.
Usually I write in order then toss in a snippet if it matches the situation...but then I edit (for wayyyy too long) that scene for hours to keep my characters in character or the situation up to date.

I do, it's very irritating actually. -_-

I tried to write in order, and found that I couldn't. I could never figure out how to string the few scenes that got me started together to be able to get from one scene I had clearly envisioned to the next. Because I thought it was really bad to write out of order, I basically hamstringed my creativity for more than a decade until I finally read C.S. Lewis wrote out of order, just like I naturally felt myself wanting to. He would naturally come up with a few key scenes and write them down first then string the rest of his stories together. Once I gave myself permission to do that, I've come a lot farther than ever before in finishing a story. It's best to write whatever way is the most comfortable to you, otherwise you'll stymie your process, and that gets you nowhere.

I never write in order. If I did, I would forget some of the scenes that are nagging at the confines of my brain and don't want them to die in the mire and muck of my mind.

So I develop a plot summary, timeline, character matrices and stuff like that. Start writing aaaand . . . jump ahead, then jump back and do a little dance and then write the ending before finishing the first paragraph. No bigs. And I don't "lose my place" because I've got my plot summary and timeline to refer back to.

Write how it works for you. Don't worry about us, we're all crazy anyway.

I do. Or else I'd still be stuck on Chapter One. Once I have a lot of scenes, I do take a general look at the overall progression and rearrange things and just check for the gaps. There is usually a good, natural progression, although I do have to tweak the transitions a little, but there aren't usually huge gaps missing, just a scene here and there that would make things flow better.

I'm doing this at the moment, I swore I never would but I find it's great for exploring ideas and getting inspiration from different parts of a story to influence and improve each other.

I do the same thing. I write scenes, or lines. Just bits and pieces here and there, and I start tying them together once I decide what is going to happen in the story and when. Believe me it can be hard but just write as best as you can and you will start to see the pieces tying themselves together in due time.