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You start with your imagination and heart. You get fired up about telling a story because you have a plot idea (a “what if?”) or a character idea, or both, and you're jazzed about seeing what happens. Here is where you play. This is where you stoke the spark of an idea into a wildfire of original material.
I think, bottom line, pantsers are most comfortable following Ray Bradbury's axiom, "We must stay drunk on writing so reality does not destroy us." Getting lost in the daily words, not knowing where they will lead, is intoxicating. Bringing order to chaos is more like work.
Because people read to worry. They want to watch a Lead they're bonded with go through the trials and tribulations of the story. The more success, the less worry.
A novel's primary effect should be emotional.
