GRRM has a similar approach, the outline way mentioned above is really helpful for those not that gifted, Brandon Sanderson mentions it heavily talking about hi

GRRM has a similar approach, the outline way mentioned above is really helpful for those not that gifted, Brandon Sanderson mentions it heavily talking about his fiction writing (if you're telling a story you know you already have an outline, not the case in fiction) and is considered among the best in meeting deadlines -- outlines being one of the main tools to achieve that.