Plotter. Without a ladder to climb my mind goes blank, any words in my head are drowned out by doubt and the blank page wins every time. For shorter works I can hold the ladder in my head, but for longer works it needs to be written down. When I have the ladder it takes away the doubt and the words in my head win. The ladder might change in the process but it needs to be there. Non negotiable.
Pants. Plotting out a story is fun for me, but something about laying it out gets it out of my system and then I'm not as excited to write. I'm a great planner and I do it for work so I think planning things out and pants-ing things out are just two skills I enjoy separately?
One of the reasons I am jazzed about this program is the emphasis on process and honoring my own unique process. I've been working on that in other areas of my life (ahem, largely related to work boundaries) and its been challenging but gratifying. I'm really looking forward to the guidance and support in that area specifically.
I’m a plotting pantser? A pantsing plotter? Like the two above me, I’m definitely a bit of both. Unlike them, I still feel like I’m figuring out which serves me best and when. Looking forward to this experience—hoping I’ll come to understand myself a bit better.
Until I get bogged down in the weeds and over plan things.
I do tend to have anchor points that I know I need to connect, and I often have a document just labeled "fragments & freewriting" for any project I'm working on. Whether I write in chronological order is really a craps shoot so I stick things there until I figure out where they go or until I catch the rest of the work up to it.
I say I’m a plantser, but I’m really a pantser. I’ve started calling them “plot rocks.” The big rocks, the scenes I know I need get sketched out and written first. Those scenes sparks other scenes, slightly smaller rocks, on down to getting to the point where I’ve got the pebbles filling in the cracks. But I stick with plantser, because things start getting slotted into an outline, which lets me know where I have holes when I run out of rocks, so I can then focus on those spots. I don’t consciously plot, but I’m at a point where I organize all my notes. (Hello, Notion!)
Plotter. Without a ladder to climb my mind goes blank, any words in my head are drowned out by doubt and the blank page wins every time. For shorter works I can hold the ladder in my head, but for longer works it needs to be written down. When I have the ladder it takes away the doubt and the words in my head win. The ladder might change in the process but it needs to be there. Non negotiable.
Pants. Plotting out a story is fun for me, but something about laying it out gets it out of my system and then I'm not as excited to write. I'm a great planner and I do it for work so I think planning things out and pants-ing things out are just two skills I enjoy separately?
One of the reasons I am jazzed about this program is the emphasis on process and honoring my own unique process. I've been working on that in other areas of my life (ahem, largely related to work boundaries) and its been challenging but gratifying. I'm really looking forward to the guidance and support in that area specifically.
I’m a plotting pantser? A pantsing plotter? Like the two above me, I’m definitely a bit of both. Unlike them, I still feel like I’m figuring out which serves me best and when. Looking forward to this experience—hoping I’ll come to understand myself a bit better.
Total pantser.
Until I get bogged down in the weeds and over plan things.
I do tend to have anchor points that I know I need to connect, and I often have a document just labeled "fragments & freewriting" for any project I'm working on. Whether I write in chronological order is really a craps shoot so I stick things there until I figure out where they go or until I catch the rest of the work up to it.
I say I’m a plantser, but I’m really a pantser. I’ve started calling them “plot rocks.” The big rocks, the scenes I know I need get sketched out and written first. Those scenes sparks other scenes, slightly smaller rocks, on down to getting to the point where I’ve got the pebbles filling in the cracks. But I stick with plantser, because things start getting slotted into an outline, which lets me know where I have holes when I run out of rocks, so I can then focus on those spots. I don’t consciously plot, but I’m at a point where I organize all my notes. (Hello, Notion!)
OMG, plant rocks, I love it! And yes, Notion For The Win!