Plotter or Pantser? Discovering your NaNoWriMo style
It all boils down to one question - are you a plotter, or a pantser? With just five more days until National Novel Writing Month begins, there is a lot of buzz going on about how people are preparing to face the challenge of writing a fifty-thousand word novel in thirty days. Some people have detailed outlines and character sketches. Some people have decided that they have Character A and Character B, and they are going to get thrown into Situations C and D, but they are going to let what happens write itself. Still other people are tossing ideas around, but haven't really settled on the story they are going to write yet. And finally, there are those NaNoWriMo purists who, having no idea what they are going to write, will sit down in front of their computer on November first and fly through the month, and their novel, by the seat of their pants. I saw it mentioned somewhere recently that outlining fiction is a pointless effort, because the outline ends up becoming so de...