I've been working on Merry Christmas, Dear Twilight off and on for the last several days. I keep deciding that I'm starting it in the wrong place and go back to do a new outline. Tonight I wrote up a 1600 word long outline on the story, and realized that by the middle of it I was writing a completely different (and not at all Christmasy) story, and that while the Christmas elements of it made sense in context, the story was not the Christmas story I had previously envisioned, and had