Oh yeah I totally understand writing under a crunch. A lot of my prompt stuff falls under this where there's a fic deadline and I'm busting my ass to try and get it done so while I'd love another pair of eyes to look at it, I never get it done in time for that.

Outline are an interesting... hmmm... I should have asked about that too as I'm all curious about that now. I don't generally write things long enough to require them anymore other than the one chapter fic that I'm shocked to find myself working on. I like outlines, myself. I tend to deviate from them and change them as I roll along (as the characters sometimes don't behave) but it's really great to have a place to start and at least a general direction of where you're going.