Mailbag – Editing for Seat-of-the-Pants Writers

During the hiatus, I got this interesting email:

“I’m one of those pantsers whose stories get set in concrete the minute they’re written. Oh, I can change the wordings a bit, or move a sentence here or there, but the story is set in my mind. I can rip out whole chunks of it, and when I rewrite them, they come back the same, but with different words. I’m wondering whether you, or someone you know of, has any advice on how to handle that?”

This is interesting largely because I am not a pantser....