1. Getting an Idea
2. Letting the Idea Percolate
3. Procrastinating from Actually Doing Any Writing

4. Deciding Your Don't Need an Outline
5. Day-Dreaming About the Celebrities Who Will Play Your Characters in the Movie Version

6. (10 Pages Written) Going Back and Rewriting the First Sentence for the Seventeenth Time
7. (50 Pages Written) Deciding You Should Probably Make an Outline After All
