: What is your writing process? After research and outlining, when it's time to start a draft what is your writing process? When I actually sit down to write, I write a section, and then reread

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My writing process:

A random idea pops into my mind (I only keep those that don't let me sleep.)
Screw outlines.
I think about the hooking sentence.
I write in order to find out what will come out from the hooking sentence (I don't stop to edit. Editing while writing can block your best ideas.)
I keep writing because I want to know what will happens in the next scene (the characters develop themselves at this point, because I'm too eager to know what they will do next. I do some Wikipedia research if necessary.)
I keep writing because I want to know what kind of crazy, ridiculous ending I will come up with.
I take a break. I get drunk for a couple of days.
I work on the second draft (my editing brain turns on at this point.)
I think about another idea/project.
At this point I already know whether the story is worth the pain or not.
I get dru...I mean I take a break again.
I do the third draft.
I upload my manuscript to scribophile.com (and of course I ask questions at writers.stackexchange.com) Once receiving the feedback from those sites, I edit my manuscript again (forth draft).
I upload it to Amazon (and pray that there aren't any grammatical mistakes.)
I repeat the process with the idea I thought about in step 9.

Hope this helps (it had worked for me so far).

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Our novel is my first attempt at writing so I am probably not best placed to answer this question, however it seems broad enough for me to muck in. Also I am co-writing my novel so this should hopefully be a unique answer.

After formulating some sort of outline to the plot (which was a whole different process in itself) I sat down with my co-author and worked on thickening the plot for the first two chapters, adding all the depth and detail.
Then I would add the narrative on my own, COMPLETELY alone (how anyone can write whilst coping with the distraction of others is beyond me).
Next, like yourself, I revise what I have done (with my co-author) plugging in the gaps and restructuring to perfection, if there is such a thing.
Now that we are a third of the way through the book we are getting together to revise the whole of the start of the book and the plot to make sure the whole thing flows.

I don't think there are any right or wrong ways to write, and our way may also take a little longer than others, but we know our process works for us.

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