Writing the Wrong Way?

Today marks the 190th day of consecutive writing, thanks to The Magic Spreadsheet.  Lately, most of my writing have gone toward a story plot that I've been working on.  To be honest, it's kicking my butt!

I failed to take my own advice and now I'm paying the price.  What advice is that?  Oh so many!  You can boil it down to me not doing any planning before I start to write though.  It seems that I like discovery writing, even though I do not think that's the way I want to write.  Not long  pieces anyway.  I don't mind knocking out a short story off the top of my head, and as a matter of fact, that's kind of the way I like to do those.

Something novel or even novella length is going to require some planning on my part though.  My question is, how do I make myself do what I know I should do.  That's not something that's happened yet.  I guess that's something I need to work on.  Either that or just go to writing short stories all the time, but that's not the plan.

One of the advantages that I can see in this approach is that I've got an idea of who the characters are now that I'm writing an outline.  I know that's kind of backwards, but I can't tell you how many times I've heard to find what works for you and that there is no right or wrong way.  Maybe all that's true.  Maybe, just maybe I'm not writing the wrong way after all.  I probably am though.

So I'm going to keep on plugging away at it.  Maybe I'm doing it right or maybe I'm doing it wrong, but either way I'll let you know how it turns out.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'm out for now, but I'll be right here write 'n things!