More on planning systems

Putting one foot in front of other gets you somewhere, but if you don’t look where you are stepping you can end up in quicksand – or worse yet, wandering over a cliff.

This rather obvious truism has been on my mind because of a writing website someone recommended last week. It’s one of the many, many current sites that argue that you should plan, plan, plan before you ever start writing. The blogger summarizes no less than nine different planning-and-structure systems (one of which is Joseph...