A pantser is someone who can write without knowing or planning what is
coming next. Expression comes from seat-of-your-pants writing.
A plotter is someone who creates a plan and an outline for their story.
Which one are you guys?
I flux a little between both.
Before 2010, I was a director that told my dolls what to do and to be like other things.
That and a lack of experience probably attributed to my former bad quality.
When I started to write The Space Cadet, my spin on ~Trancekuja2k's fic, I was exhilarated and having a need to please
Note emphasis on exhilarated and need to please:
This
boost of assumed quality, along with writing for someone else instead
of myself and a cloud forced me to buckle down and work on getting
things right.
Up to that point, Space Cadet was one of my more polished pieces, and it was barely mine.
I am proud of it to this day, and that feels good.
I took the same techniques that I jury rigged in Space Cadet, and used them in my NaNoWriMo Pink Lemon Meta Corps story.
I fine tuned my techniques, and that's where the plotter and panster thing comes in.
I
have said otherwise before, but I was still processing and
experimenting with it at the time, but what I did was make the roughest
outline that I could that did not sacrifice coherency. "A fight scene
happens here." "Scene transition to evil lair where they discover that
their plan is blowing up in their face" It's a bit more specific, but
that's a good jist. I then take all the sparse notes for that scene, lay
them out under Word, and use them as a guide as the characters do their
thing. Unless I had something specific in mind, they just run off and
play by the rules in the directional sentences I wrote beforehand. (the
only rule is to not be uninteresting and not to stray into a total other
story).
That's it. Stories are given the back-of-a-VHS-box treatment and then I go from there.
I just need to work on procrastination now.
How do you guys write your stories?
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