Blog on Creative Writing Styles: Plotter or Pantster?

[Paula]

For all you writers, I'm guest blogging at Thoughtful Minds United. The subject is creative writing styles. Are you a plotter who outlines or do you wing it intuitively?

http://thoughtfulmindsunited.com/2015...

[Mary]

The thing I always dislike about this is that they seem to think that you have to pants a normal first draft. I pants my outlines. Once I figure out where I could start -- and there may be notes before then -- I head out into the wilds of the story in an outline where I am pantsing all along the way.

And it's not a "multi-leveled" outline. It's just a description of each scene.

[Paula]

That's interesting, Mary. I think most writers are a mix of intuitive writing and planning. The variations and levels of that mix is quite personal.