Writing

How I write

Why would you care? Well, it’s always interesting, if nothing else, to see how other people do the things you do. Perhaps some small parts of their routines may be useful. Even in a negative sense. The scientific method is like that, finding out what doesn’t work (for you, with writing) is a valid result. I don’t use a quill…

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Writing

Outlining thoughts

Novelists consider their writing method to be either an outliner (they make notes on plot, plot progression, character changes, etc) or a pantser (a seat of the pants writer who starts with a blank page and just, well, writes). They argue which is better. Outliners consider a pantser ambitious. Do pantsers really think they can write a first draft that…

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