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I am like this too. My first drafts are essentially outlines. I tried following an outline when I wrote my first novel, but gave up and just went with my heart about halfway through because the outline was just stifling my creativity. Also, trying to write down an outline and fussing over it pretty much gives me a huge case of writers block.
So for this second novel, I just had some ideas that I wrote on a list, started writing towards a word count goal, and added more things to the list as I thought of them. The draft doesn't make any sense at all right now but that is what a rewrite is for.
I'm the opposite. I pants, but can't write down my ideas fast enough. So I start writing an outline so I don't forget.