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Piraka are doing very well, outselling the Toa Hordika and Visorak from 2005. Everyone is very pleased about that.

Exaaaactly as I predicted. Excellent--one more step for 2006 to be the best Bionicle year so far. Keep up the awesome work yall are doing, Greg and LEGO! Can't wait for '07 now...

so go buy books

Duly buying! :salutes:

Yes, I still remember you!

My approach, usually, is sorta a mix between outlining and not -- I only "outline" because sometimes I'll have an idea and not have time to write the actual scene, just jot a note... so I don't usually even call that an outline, but I do arrange it in chron. order.

But I always approach the outline as just one of many possible ways I could go when I actually write, and NOTHING is ever final. (I put it in all caps to yell at myself to never forget that. ) Often my "outline" says the character wins something in a scene and I end up having him/her lose 'cuz that is cooler. XD Or vice versa. So even with the outline I'm still pretty much clueless as to how the story will end.

I find, personally, that works better than pure spontaneity. BTW, took a class on writing, and what TMD said is basically what my instructor (a published writer and editor) said is best -- he had us write outlines for our stories that could not go over 20 words. And then everything else is supposed to be spontaneous.