All 5 books and their arcs are done. Filling in the gaps between those beats leave enough wiggle room to expand on stuff as I get there. The ending is already known to me and was the basis for the story in the first place, I'm just working toward it.
For the story i'm developing (hellcats+hellhounds) I've got a roadmap and a general idea but it's not quite set in stone. there's maybe three different pathways that could work but it'll be a matter of what path feels best once i'm nearer to them
My story came as a complete packaged. I know the beginning, middle, ending and most details in between by heart. Planning is just for organization, rearranging, or to brainstorm scenes I like better. I'm always changing small things as I go to tell the story more effectively.
Yeah, I pretty much had the ending in my mind ever since the conception of the story. Usually, when I create a new story I always have two things in my mind: the beginning and the ending. I have a rough idea of what's in the middle, but I often prefer creating things as I go.
I finished writing the script for my comic a year ago and, or course, I changed and added many things, but the ending itself is still pretty much the same, just a little more fleshed out.
I think about my story in term of theme and character arcs, so having a beginning and end is a must. The middle I'm still figuring out.
I don't. ^^; With Galactiquest, there's a point where the story will have to end, but I don't know much of the specifics of what'll happen at that point. With the other series I'm planning to write, I have pretty much everything planned out but the ending.
I feel like too impatient to write it all out on script, but then again I haven't really tried. Guess I'm afraid of discovering how much I'm missing. Still, atleast a fleshed out guideline or road map should resolve this.
Trying to find a way to tie all these characters and moments to fit these themes, all while chipping away and discovering new things about... ourselves.
Oh no, both stories will have an ending, it's just that I haven't figured it out yet. Though I do tend to focus more on the journey than the destination.
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For me both my stories do have planned endings, I just need to write them really. (As I'm about 4/5 of the way through both 
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They have change slightly from what planned originally when I was still doing plot outlines and making notes for the stories.
I won't spoil that much in the diary but I think the ending is actually a reveal of one of the characters, possibly a plot twist. I already finished writing the diary but I started writing another one which sets after these events.
For my current series - yes, I have a concrete plan for what the ending will be :]
In general though, I'm not someone who comes up with the ending from the get go and 'work backwards' or 'fill in the gaps'; my idea for how my series will end develops alongside my ideas for other scenes and story directions. If I have a clear-cut idea of the ending, I generally also have an idea of how I'll get there. Even then, sometimes I'll change my mind about the ending, and sometimes I have multiple 'ending candidates' which I will choose the ending from depending on what path I feel I want to take the story through.
For one series I'm planning, it was initially supposed to be an episodic thing that goes on for as long as I have something to add to it, so I wasn't even planning on having an overall ending (of course I planned to have endings for smaller episode and arc plots though :P). But eventually it developed a 'myth arc' with its own ending, so that's probably the closest thing to an ending that series will have (I still think I might add 'bonus episodes' after the 'myth arc' concludes, sort of like anime OVAs)
Basically I have a sense of direction, but nothing's nailed down until the full story is on the page in some form 
Yes. I planned my medium-long form webcomic to run like a movie as I intended. so there will be an ending for my MC as he reaches another life stage. I already know who, what, where, when, (the highs the lows, the pacings)-- but not the detail HOW, that would have to be planned when I'm ready to work (draw) on particular chapter.
I definitely need to have the ending in mind before I even write! 
Usually, I outline the skeleton of the story from the very start. The ending tends to be the clearest in my head. How I get to that ending may deviate slightly from the original outline but doesn't go out of expectations.
It depends for me. I usually have a vague idea of where the story will end but sometimes when I finally reach it, things have changed. One time my bad guy came in to early and I just went with it.
For my current story I had a few key scenes throughout already planned, but I figured out how to get there as I went.
Yeh I have an ending in mind. Originally it was going to be something really, really simple... but then I got excited with the fact that I can put in ANY genre in my story. Story would later grow and then I got excited with the fact I can stuff in a plotline I've always wanted to do inspired by my favorite anime movies of all time.
And then I got EVEN MORE excited with the fact that I can add in a rock, paper, scissors mechanic similar to Jojo. I shouldn't be ambitious about a project about stick figures, but HERE WE ARE lmao.
