6. Do you plan your stories beforehand or go with the flow?
100%, I'm a pantser.
Every effort I have made to plan a story in advance has been a spectacular failure. Either the planning fails because I can't figure out how the story would work past a certain point or any interest I had in writing the story vanishes.
My typical "planning" is to start a story with a dialogue snippet or an overall objective, and then to see what happens.
Sometimes—as is the case with a story I'm currently writing—the idea that was the purpose of the story gets dropped. That's always fun. /s
It's always a balancing act between finding out what story wants to exist vs. what story I wanted to have exist.
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Date: 2025-03-19 04:47 pm (UTC)100%, I'm a pantser.
Every effort I have made to plan a story in advance has been a spectacular failure. Either the planning fails because I can't figure out how the story would work past a certain point or any interest I had in writing the story vanishes.
My typical "planning" is to start a story with a dialogue snippet or an overall objective, and then to see what happens.
Sometimes—as is the case with a story I'm currently writing—the idea that was the purpose of the story gets dropped. That's always fun. /s
It's always a balancing act between finding out what story wants to exist vs. what story I wanted to have exist.