Outlining vs. Winging It

I've decided to update the homepage's Rymellan and fantasy progress meters every Friday. I just updated them for today, and I've passed the halfway mark on the fantasy story first draft!

Well, not really.

Writers fall into two camps: those who outline and those who don't (the latter group is sometimes referred to as "organic writers"). The camps aren't mutually exclusive, but most of us probably tend toward one method or the other. I'm in the organic camp. I write by the seat of my pants. That ...