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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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