Of This and Other Worlds

I do have a "math mind" as someone above said. I do have to work out the plot beforehand, even though I don't necessarily write it down as a full outline. But I often write notes. That isn't to say that I figure everything out beforehand, that would be boring. And a detailed plot outline may not always be helpful anyway, because while plotting is my strong suit, I'm also very much of the school of thought that "character is plot" (points at icon you made for me 8-)). This can mean that I can get to a particular scene and getting to the character reactions, the nitty-gritty details, and realize that the character-motivation doesn't work, and that that's a plot hole. Then I have to stop and resolve that before I can go on, but I don't think I would have been able to even see the problem with a detailed outline, because it isn't until I'm actually in the middle of the story that I can see everything that's going on.

The process for me seems to be:
- get an idea
- figure out a goal/end for the story
- figure out how to get from Point A to Point B; make notes (but not a full outline)
- start writing from scene 1
- write more notes as I go, including snippets of future scenes (usually bits of dialogue)
- if I find a problem with the plot when writing a scene, wrestle with it and make notes of the resolution
- if need be, go back and insert stuff that needs to be inserted into earlier scenes to fix the plot hole
- continue writing scene N to the end.