3 Better Ways to Organize Your Story for Writers Who Are Pantsers (Instead of Using a Traditional Outline)
Some writers are plotters (which means they meticulously plot every detail of their novel before they write it), and others are pantsers (which means they plan nothing and fly by the seat of their pants), but what I’ve found after working with hundreds of writers is that most writers fall somewhere between the two. Identifying […]
What “Pantsing” Really Means, and Why Most Writers Have it All Wrong
If you’re a writer with even minimal involvement in the online writing community, chances are that you’re familiar with the terms, “plotter,” and “pantser.” And if you’re a plotter who manages to successfully finish books—and by “successfully” I mean get out a sloppy first draft with a rough approximation of a beginning, a middle, and […]
Writing Outside the Lines
Today’s guest post is from Amanda Linehan, a fiction writer, indie author, and INFP. I absolutely love Amanda’s take on writing without an outline, and I think you will too. I remember the first time I ditched my outline. I was working on my third novel, Dragon, and the second one that I would self-publish, […]