I had somehow forgotten about Yuletide! Spending Christmas alone in lockdown meant it was just like any other day, it hardly feels like the holidays are here.

My outlines tend to start as bullet point sentences that eventually evolve into short paragraphs before I can start actually writing. I have a bad memory all around (depression induced memory loss is a daily battle for me) so I like making sure I write down in advance as much as possible. The upside of taking so much time and energy just for the outline means that even if a story doesn't get written right away I can just go back to it years later and still know what I wanted to do with it.