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Peewee writer here. Sub-amateur, types paragraphs into overlapping Excel cells. Once characterized a wall as flat.

(advise against buying a structurally unsound house)

Anyway, I have a hard time writing an outline because the characters tend to disrupt the flow when inserted into the narrative. So once i get a story in my head, i usually just start with a linear blow through. As Miller said, just getting the words and the juices and whatnot out onto the page. Then ill read it again for huge structural stuff. Hitting plot points, character consistency, flow, pacing, etc. Then ill go back and pretty up the language. Change "The dog was sad" to "the mongrel, seven-species meta-genomic hybrid whimpered next to the smoking corpse of its friend..." etc.

At that point, i give it to my alternate personality to read. Then corrections. THEN, other people. (in theory)