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RS, Author, Novelist on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub Ch 16 Nbr 14 — Are you a pantser or a plotter? Have you always ...



#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 16 Nbr 14 — Are you a pantser or a plotter? Have you always been this way? What brought you here?

A few answers here.

I write stories by starting with a character and a situation they must deal with, along with a setting and situation that will end the story. I may jot down some notes or presumptions. Rarely, I write a treatment. This is regardless of the size of the work. I consider this vaguely like an outline. I then write the story with whatever occurs to me as I write the story, aiming for the ending. I explain what it is like to write when asked that I channel the characters.

Pantser? Plotter?

I don't remember the process of writing the first 25k novella, but I think I had something like a rudimentary outline. I also was intensely in tune with the POV MC. It was probably mostly written seat of the pants, but I did finish it in the two weeks afforded me by the winter break.

I wrote the next story after spending money to buy books on how to write a novel. This induced me to write a detailed 20 chapter outline, and I proceeded to write a novel based on that. The characters kept taking over, until one secondary character with asian features and a white streak in her red hair insisted on telling me how she got the white streak. I wrote it all down. It became a treatment. I switched to writing that novel. 200k words later, I sold it.

I never completed the outlined novel. I find that if I write too much detail down, I've drained the interesting experiential part of the story out of me. I lose interest.

Panster?

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