Three P’s of Writing. Plot, Plan, or Power Through?

November is NaNoWriMo time, and although it’s not for me, I know there are a lot of folks out there striving to hit word counts and get 50,000 words written before the month ends. My feeling is NaNo works best for those who have at least a semblance of a plot to use as a roadmap. At the very least, a plan for the book.

And, since I was going to be starting a new project, I told myself that this time, I was going to have at least a skeleton of a plot before I started. Once I’d determined I was...