Are you a pantser or are you a plotter?
In fiction writing, a pantser is someone who lets the story take them wherever it wants to go.
A plotter is someone who knows the beginning, middle and end. They have an outline and they can follow it all the way through.
Me, well, I am as surprised as my readers at the ending of my own stories. I cry when I *have* to kill off a favourite character and I let the story tell itself.
Which one are you?