Is your writing all over the place?

So was the writing of famous mystery writer Agatha Christie. A new book on Christie's notebooks reveals that her writing process was far from orderly: "The notebooks contain thousands of ideas, many dated years before the work they appeared in was finished, few of them consecutive, since she scribbled in whichever was nearest to hand. At any one time, Christie would have half a dozen notebooks going." from "The Mystery of the Messy Notebooks: Why Agatha Christie's method was utterly deranged" by Christine Kenneally on Slate. 


Christie apparently sometimes resolved to get better organized, but never really did. Her process worked for her. If your process is not working for you, look at how some other writers go about the process of writing on Real Writers in Action and get some suggestions for ways to make your process go more smoothly on How to Write a Paper.