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Are you a Plotter or a Pantser?
If you’ve ever participated in NaNoWriMo, the annual National Novel Writing Month, you’re no doubt familiar with the self-affixing badges you can award yourself depending on your preferred method of storytelling: Pantsing or Plotting.
Pantsers are spontaneous beings who like to fly by the seat of their pants. They don’t waste precious writing time crafting a story structure. They just write. Pantsers like to get everything out on the page and figure out the story as they go.
Plotters, on the other hand, are planner people who need a rigid structure to organize their thoughts. They spend a large amount of time carefully outlining the narrative and breaking the story into sizeable chunks. Plotters like to know where the story is going so they don’t waste time on tangents or extraneous scenes.
I have tried both of these approaches in my own fanfiction writing. So, which one worked best? Find out at FAN/FIC Magazine.



