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I got a unique tip from a pantser friend that I don't see people talking about very often.
What she told me was that she read books like Save The Cat, and studied story beats to understand plot formulas.
It's unique in that, while she didn't write down what would happen, she would use the ideas she came up with to follow a story structure she had memorized... and I think that's pretty neat.
When you start to create a novel, one of the first questions you have to ask yourself is, “Should I start by creating an outline, or just fl
Stephanie O’Brien:
One of the best feelings in writing is when your own story pleasantly surprises you, and not everyone is willing to sacrifice that feeling on the altar of a strict outline. I know I’m not.
That’s why I’ve started to use a hybrid of the two approaches.
If you want to have the clarity and coherence of an outline, while keeping the spontaneity that “pantsing” provides, maybe you’ll find it helpful to see how I combine outlining with flying by the seat of my pants.
Happy STS!
Do you consider yourself a plotter, a planner, or a planster? Would you mind describing your plotting/organizational process?
hello and how are you?
Happy Storyteller Saturday! Thank you for the ask! c:
We are definitely a planster, unfortunately fortunately. (≧∇≦)/ We definitely wish we were more of a plotter, but tend to shift towards planning/pantsing it, especially with our draft style, which is more just scene drafting and then slowly connecting them together!
Our process has definitely come a long way, but we have to thank our person for our amazing and honestly super helpful current plotting process! And we of course would love to share it!
The basics of the process is having categories that you can bleed the idea into, in whichever way you want to! We kind of set up our intro posts in this way too!
But the order of the categories are as followed, and we normally give each their own little document in Scrivener for each! We will show a folder of one of our WIPs to show you too. ^-^
Order of Categories: Initial Concept ~ the original idea, no matter what form it takes! World ~ the geography, mostly Magicks ~ The Storyverse's version of magic, involved in the World Societies ~ The Entities that hold the most sway in the Lands Characters ~ Everyone who is involved in the Stories Random Lore ~ Things that would be nice to hint at in the story Ramblings ~ Things that help our brain focus, mostly talks with friends, mutuals, and of course, our person Outline ~ The flow of the story, in the form of small sentences in our case Random Writings ~ A folder instead of a Document, where we put all of the scene drafting that we do in the story, without worrying about connecting them just yet - that is for the Official Draft!
photo shows the categories and how we set them up in Scrivener! c:
If you want to learn more, or if anyone else is interested in things, feel free to ask more! We don't mind sharing it, and this kind of set up has helped us a lot with our plotting and planning and things! Also, it is a nice set up to keep everything in one place while also organized among themselves.
i need to be a pantser more often actually??? i had an idea then i fuckin went for it and i’m having fun with it?? like, i’m a plotter today a fault, and i stress myself out too much when i plan shit out…then i never write
NANOWRIMO 2018!!!!
Whoop! So it's that time again! NANOWRIMO is right around the corner and once again I'm participating! For those of you who don't know, Nanowrimo is a month-long writing challenge where authors from around the world all attempt to write their novel, or at least 50,000 words of it, in a month. That's 1667 words per day for 30 days.
My novel this year is Project Helius-4. It's a sci-fi novel that's heavy on the science and equally heavy on the action.
Synopsis A short time in the future, humans have newly achieved long-distance space flight and have begun exploring the vastness of space. On one of these these exploratory missions they happen across a dead world but one that showed evidence of prior signs of intelligent and highly advanced lifeforms. As such, humanity has prepared a research and xeno-archaeological expedition to the planet, Helius-4. This story follows the researchers of Project Helius-4 as they attempt to find out who the aliens were, how they lived and in the end, how they died.
But their research may be far more valuable than they ever believed. Because as humanity pushes further into the black, they're slowly pushing closer to a war that has been going on long before they ever dreamed spaceflight was possible. A war responsible for the destruction of Helius-4.
Here's to hoping I make it to that 50,000 word mark!!!!
There are different types of writers. Planners, Pantsers, Plantsers... But the question is, which one are you?
Everybody has their own methods for writing. But what are yours?
NaNoWriMo Update
The working title of my novel is Maelstrom.
It is going to be the story of a gay couple set against dramatic changes in Earth’s climate, where one (or both) will be chosen for a program to colonise another planet.
My two boys have first names now: They are Paul and Sebastian (whose middle name is Reuben). If anybody remembers, yes, I’m afraid Damian/Damien is out.
Paul is the sensible, down to earth type, and Seb is the dreamer.
Fun fact: Seb is the son of a poly relationship consisting of two women and one man.
And that’s about all I have for now. Which actually is quite a lot considering my pantser ways.
by Angela DeRiso There are many ways to outline and write a story, and knowing the road map for where you’re going is something most of
Strange as it may sound, I’ve found that outlining only a few chapters ahead in my work gives me motivation to continue. I have a general sense of what will occur in those chapters, but where they will lead is left open.
