Ah, but the trick to successful pantstering is to edit it so the finished product doesn't look slapdash.
I'm a pantster (hence my blog title over on Blogger, Tales of an Intrepid Pantster), and outlining sucks all the fun out of writing, for me. That means my first drafts are often VERY messy, and later edits are as much about smoothing plot holes, using some of the cool stuff I came up with by the seat of my pants, and fixing what I hath wrought.
I just finished the latest draft of book 2 of a trilogy I've been working on for a while, and it's 30,000 words too long. I'm pretty sure I even know which words: the ones I rambled out while I waited for the characters to tell me where the story was supposed to start.
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:07 am (UTC)I'm a pantster (hence my blog title over on Blogger, Tales of an Intrepid Pantster), and outlining sucks all the fun out of writing, for me. That means my first drafts are often VERY messy, and later edits are as much about smoothing plot holes, using some of the cool stuff I came up with by the seat of my pants, and fixing what I hath wrought.
I just finished the latest draft of book 2 of a trilogy I've been working on for a while, and it's 30,000 words too long. I'm pretty sure I even know which words: the ones I rambled out while I waited for the characters to tell me where the story was supposed to start.