The Great Debate: Plotting Versus Pantsing
No doubt you’ve heard this discussion before. Some writers rely on advanced plotting when writing their books. They outline in advance of actually writing the book, sometimes plot point by plot...
View ArticleA Post About Plotting and Pantsing at Magical Words
After about a six-week hiatus from posting, I am back at Magical Words, the blogsite on the craft and business of writing that I co-founded and continue to maintain (under the name David B. Coe) with...
View ArticlePlotting Versus Pantsing Update
Last week at the Magical Words blogsite, which I helped found so many years ago with Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E Murphy, I posted about plotting versus pantsing. For those not in the writing...
View ArticleWriting-Tip Wednesday: Handling a Plot-Hole Crisis
So I did what all good writers do. I panicked, flew into histrionics, convinced myself that the sky was falling and all my work had been for nothing. That was fun and productive… We writers all know...
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Writing-Tip Wednesday: Plotting Or Not — Doing Away With a Dumb Debate
This is my forty-second Writing-Tip Wednesday post of the year, and somehow I have gotten through forty-one posts without addressing that age-old writing question, “Do I or do I not outline?” Or put...
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Professional Wednesday: Once More Unto The Breach — To Outline or Not, Redux
After attending DragonCon and speaking on panels about various aspects of writing, I have found myself thinking—yet again—about the age-old debate between those who outline their books and those who...
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Professional Wednesday: Beginnings, Middles, and Endings, part IV — Keeping...
Today, I bring you one more “Middles” post in my several-weeks-long feature on “Beginnings, Middles, and Endings.” You can find past posts in the series here, here, and here. I made the self-evident...
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