Linear Writing

I’ve often thought about writing out random scenes, things that I see my characters doing, or events I know my characters will interact with at some point in the story. It’s pretty easy, in fact, to make a list of those scenes, and soon it becomes obvious which ones will make it into the story and which won’t. Some will be separate chapters, others will be folded into another, or perhaps comprise a memory within a scene that takes place later.

But that’s as far as the process of thinking spat...