Making Stuff Up: How one Author gets from beginning to end before it's too late

Today I'm welcoming Eric Garrison, author of Four 'Til Late, on his Tomorrow Comes Media tour. He's telling us about the joys of planning, pantsing, and generally telling stories. So... do you like to know the end of a story before you read the beginning? Are you one of those readers who always has to check out the last page first? Or would that seem like cheating? Even heresy?

What about when the author knows the end before the beginning? We trust our authors to have an end in sight when we s...