Powered by Blogger. Thursday, January 10, 2008  My Love Affair
with Plotting Methods  In the writing realm, you generally run
into three groups of writers: plotters, pantsers, and plantsers.
If you’re a plotting newbie, let me give you my take on plotting
methods.  Plotters meticulously map out the details and nuances
of their novels in order to make sure their characters stay on
the straight and narrow thereby alleviating the possibility that
their story will derail and of their characters run amok.
Pantsers laugh in the face of planning as they sit at their
computers and allow their story to spring from their fingers,
thrilling in the unknown. And, plantsers are somewhere in the
middle. This hybrid group recognizes they need some sort of
planning as to avoid wandering willy-nilly about their novel
with no real goal in mind.  My first attempts at writing were
straight up pantsing. I sat gleefully churning out page after
page of creativity, allowing myself the liberty to run wild and
free through the story, l