Are Chronological Writers from Another Planet?

I could never be a discovery writer, with only one point in the story to work on.

Creativity just doesn't work that way for me. Yesterday, I wrote one of the best, and most gut-wrenching, scenes of my life.

Today, I planned to write the set-up that comes directly before it. It was fresh in my mind.

And NOPE.

Completely not happening. Can't do it. So I skipped ahead about five chapters and there, somehow, the dialogue is flowing, and it looks like I'll get my 1000 words in today, too.

I don't know how front-to-back, start-to-finish authors can even exist.

What kind of alien beings are they?

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