Writing chapters out of order

[Hawke]

When I write I have to know how the book is going to end otherwise the story just spirals out of my control and it never gets finished....

Over the last year or so I've been writing (Mainly as a hobby) I have noticed that most writers I talk to or read articles from all say that they write or at least decide on their ending first...

I am currently writing a novel at the moment and I know exactly how I want it to end, now it probably wont turn out exactly how I have planned it but having that plan just helps guide me, and lets me decide what needs to happen to my characters in order for them to be how I imagine them at the end....I hope that makes sense to everyone

[PTeppic]

I spent a long time on timelines and plot outline before starting to write. Then wrote the first few chapters, before starting to dot around doing the most interesting bits (to me). Sadly, I got bored and moved onto something else before filling in the gaps - it's a project to return to once I get bored with my memoirs....

[lin robinson]

The "order" of the chapters is the final order in which they will be read. I see absolutely no reason that writing them should follow that same order, in more that a chef starts cooking things in the order the courses will be eaten