Basically I wing it. That's my style.

When a scenario gets into my head I play it over and over in there...like watching a movie. The conversation comes out, the conflict, the drama, the emotions...the rest of the world fits around their lives, the good and the bad of it.

I start up a Word Document and just type. Sometimes I close my eyes and don't look at the screen or the keyboard and just type what I have been watching in my head. Sometimes it's just bits here and bits there of a story. Sometimes it's an entire scene that ends up being hashed, rehashed and edited some more before I like it (and I never like it, it's never good "enough").

My handy dictionary and the tools in Word are my only assistants at this time. I've tried character outlines but I found them unnecessary because a character I want to write about it I already feel an understanding for, a connection with him/her, I already know them as if they're real.