![]() ![]() When you go on vacation do you prefer to have every detail planned in advance? or do you like to play things by ear? Does spontaneity give you anxiety? Does structure feel like a prison?ĭon't get me wrong. Do you make important life decisions with your head or your heart? Are you a list maker or do you prefer sticky notes? Are you a file cabinet person or a pile person? After all, writing a book is simply a steroid-injected extension of your natural decision making and creative processes. But you don't have to go into the process blind. To a certain extent, the only way to completely nail down your style is to start writing. How do you know if you are a planner or a pantser? The reality for most writers will shake out somewhere in between extreme planning and extreme discovery. Narrative is the frosting on the cake for a true planner. Will decide on devices and fully develop characters and settings in advance. In advance of beginning the narrative, a story planner will map out plots and subplots. Once the outline is finished, all that remains is to fill in At the extreme end of story planning, the writer will craft an outline with as Jim Butcher and James Patterson areĮxamples of planners. Story planners or outliners are writer's who map out the plot first. Discovery writers will do stuff like kill off a main character without premeditation. With discovery writing is that the process of writing the narrative is the main guiding force of the ![]() In this case, the story itself emerges from the conflicts and/or needs of the world. One form of discovery writing involves heavy world building in advance of the actual narrative process. Perhaps the author has the beginning in mind, but knows nothing of where the story will go from there. Sometimes a discovery writer will start with a climactic scene envisioned and no idea how the characters They may haveĪ main character profile previously developed, or they might begin with only the ending in mind. ![]() A pure discovery writer is someone who dives into the narrative straight away. What exactly is a planner, and what is a discovery writer?Ī pure discovery writer is a rare animal, but they certainly do exist. ![]()
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