Plot A Month W4D5: Plot Versus Pantsing

fixyourwritinghabits:

I might end up emphasizing this too much, but your outline is not a rigid structure that must be obeyed regardless of the cost. As a writer, your creative flow is going to go up and down, or occasionally faucet at full blast - holy shit where did all those ideas come from and why do they occur when you are exhausted and trying to sleep?

There’s a semi-artificial debate over two methods of writing, plotting versus pantsing. Pantsing, you can probably guess, is tackling t...