![]() ![]() They can sit down and craft a strong first draft with little or no free writing, prewriting, brainstorming, outlining, etc. Pantsing essentially means “winging it” some authors are great pantsters. As a writer, I feel your pain I’ve started many a story with awesome ideas that have eventually become unfinished beginnings because…I’m not a pantser. Square one could be that you’re an aspiring author with no novels under your belt or you’re a novelist who has completed one or more works but said novels are in “awaiting revisions” status. ![]() When you decide to return to it, the original vision seems trite, so you decide to write something new you're back to square one. ![]() Weeks go by and soon you forget the story. What is your character doing? You toil for hours, days, weeks even before this amazing story idea (as well as the outfit you envisioned wearing to the award show for the novel’s film adaptation) becomes another living example of writer's block. No problem, right? You sit down to write and…crap. You know your main character inside and out, now all you have to do is write the novel. You’ve pictured the scenes from your story 1,000 times, and you know exactly how the climax is supposed to play out, and it’s amazing. ![]()
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