A Silly Robot’s Guide to Writing Sci-Fi: Part 2 – Planning

Note from Nick: This is a guest post from areallygood friend (like, “stood-in-my-wedding-and-I-in-his” sort of friend). So there. He’s a great writer, an awesome storyteller, and he makes a mean Southern-style cornbread (the only kind).

I’ll admit it:

I am most definitely a ‘pantster’.

However, that doesn’t always work to my advantage. More often than not, I find myself stuck at some critical juncture in the story. That’s the point where I think, “…hmm…should have planned a little more…”

When I d...