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While browsing the site I spotted something in Historical Fiction I thought would be useful to us, the "pantser or Outliner" thread. This made me wonder. How many of my fellow SFF writers are pantsers, outliners, or something inbetween? So here it is....Pantser or Outliner SFF edition!
I'm about 50/50 I think, give or take a few percent. I need to have my novel length works outlined or I suffer from massive writers block. But at the same time I don't need to know the number of scenes in a chapter and summarize them. Knowing what needs to happen in a chapter is fine, and the crucial part for me.
By contrast my short stories never require anything other than a small plot diagram of what needs to happen. Ok...reading this I sound like more of an outliner than a pantser. I change my opinion. I'm an outliner, probably in the 60/40 range of things.
What are you?
I'm about 50/50 I think, give or take a few percent. I need to have my novel length works outlined or I suffer from massive writers block. But at the same time I don't need to know the number of scenes in a chapter and summarize them. Knowing what needs to happen in a chapter is fine, and the crucial part for me.
By contrast my short stories never require anything other than a small plot diagram of what needs to happen. Ok...reading this I sound like more of an outliner than a pantser. I change my opinion. I'm an outliner, probably in the 60/40 range of things.
What are you?
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