The Value of Space

All writers are pantsers at some point, because we’re all making stuff up. Even planners – planning is just making stuff up ahead of using it in a first draft, instead of making it up in the draft and then revising it. Everybody starts with a huge empty space, and has to fill it.

Creativity needs that space.

But empty space is … invisible. Empty. This makes it really easy to overlook, especially when trying to explain to someone else How To Do This. “Begin by making a list of characters.” “Start...