Check-in post, days 12 & 13 + Weekly beta-seeking/snippet-posting/general chatter

[lola_mento]

Long time no seeing you. (Yesterday was one of Those Days when nothing gets ever done, including posts.)

Making any progress lately? Feeling like murdering someone already? Got completely distracted from whatever you were doing? Wait, that's me.

Today's discussion subject: are you more of a plotter (someone who has to know beforehand how the story goes) or a pantser (someone who makes it up as they go)? Plotter or pantser? describes some different types of each. I've seen these terms mostly from pro-writing novelists, where it's used as a thing of outline-or-no-outline, but for fannish writing, a more general planning-or-no-planning works better, I think.

And! This is also the weekly post where you can:

-Make a request for a beta reader/someone to bounce ideas from/something else you may need

-Post a snippet of your WIP

-Chat about anything else

Comments

[chibifukurou]

I'm some mix of a plotter and a pantser.

I originally start out with a plot, ending, outline,etc. (So I guess that makes me a BP plotter.)

Then I start writing and let the inspiration take me, and in most cases I end up with a completely different story than I'd first planned. Sometimes for better sometimes for worse.

[raletha]

The hybrid approach works well for me too. I like being surprised by my stories, but I don't like getting lost with them! :)