Pre-Writing

I've never been much of a pre-writer. I find creating a first draft out of flow of consciousness on the subject, then going back and altering and tweaking, adding and erasing, and changing around paragraphs works best for me. of course I need a useful method of pre-writing when tackling a large assignment. For the large essays I've got to write I use outlines. I create an outline for what I want my essay to look like including all of quotes and main points. I plan out little details of the paragraph so I have a pretty steady set of tracks to follow when I'm writing my rough draft. Sometimes on assignments I don't particularly take to, ill need additional guidance for myself to get myself started. a lot of times I will use clustering to brainstorm ideas of what to write about. I  will also make it look like a list as well. I consistently use these methods because they never fail to work for me.