I have always preferred to write chronologically. It suited my brain's play-it-out approach but caused all manner of bogdown, since it did not suit my speed of creation and crossreferencing proclivities.
I scribble down snippets, all the time, bits of dialogue I want to remember, ideas for stories and what-have-you, but a lot of snippets I never got around to writing down.
Thus, it finally occurs to me to stop trying to change my habits and leverage them instead. I'm giving myself the freedom to scribble a book. Not write it, not plan it, just scribble it.
I've taken a bunch of scenes and ideas and started new files on my PDA for each individual scene. I write what I have, whether that's a line of narrative or dialogue or just put this here.
You know what? I think it's working.
