Keeping House

I'm in what I call the home stretch of writing my next mainstream (for a 2008 release). This is the time when I'm supposed to cross all the Is and dot all the Ts. And when I have to get everything organized.

I don't write in sequence. Never have. Sometimes a scene niggles and nags at me until I get it written. So I write it and get it out of the way. I do try to keep the scenes organized in my manuscript as I work on it, but this doesn't always work out. What's more likely is that the end of my manuscript file is a jumble of unrelated scenes, sometimes single lines of dialogue that I decided will have a place in my finished manuscript . . . I'm just not sure where. I'm always glad I wrote them, but trying to decide where to put them is frustrating.

How about you? Do you write your novels or works in progress in sequence?