I write slowly. When I worked for a newspaper I thought that would be a handicap, but I always had the story in mind so I didn’t have the problem. I wrote on the typewriter, which I had never done. So, here I am, at my age, still learning. The thing is I have not had an outline for any novel I’ve written, however, now I think the fact that I have the movie in my head is, for me, the equivalent of having an outline.
I’m using Scrivener and the bulletin board cards give me the closest thing to an outline that I have.
Another thing is that when I don’t have the story so that I can visualize, then I plod, struggle, come to a halt, until I can ‘see’ the action again.
Does that make me a plotter or pantster? Maybe a mix of both.