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A kick in the pants

March 31, 2010Gwen HernandezWriting Life

If you’ve been keeping up with my posts the last few weeks or months, you’re probably starting to think I’m schizophrenic. One minute I’m lauding the wonder of structure and pre-planning, and the next I’m lamenting the missing magic when I write within a structure. Basically, you’ve been watching me try to find myself. I

The traveling pantser

There’s this notion that every writer is one of two types: plotter, or pantser. In the extreme, a plotter plans out the whole story from start to finish before she sits down to write. She knows how the story begins, what happens in the middle, and how the story ends, and probably has a detailed