This is interesting as I never usually plan, but I did plan a bit for my current fic as it seemed to warrant it, but when I started writing I ended up doing it the way I always do, which is have a vague idea where I want to go with something but keep changing my mind as I write LOL.

The only planning ahead I am doing is having lots of docs set up for future chaps and bunging stuff in them when it comes to me.

Stories tend to come to me first of all as snippets of dialogue that I build descriptions and stuff around - which goes a long way to explaining why my fics are light on that kind of stuff *fails*

I think that if I planned in too much detail it would stifle me to be honest, but if I was to write a casefic, obviously that would need planning... which is probably why I've never written one... *looks at Space* Whatever happened to that idea??! *g*