Plotter, or Pantser? Which Are You?

I’ll begin with a confession. I’m a plotter, sometimes called an outliner. I’m not a pantser. A pantser is a writer who sits down at the computer and writes a book or novel with a premise and little else. Stephen King professes to be a certified pantser.

“I distrust plot[ing] for two reasons,” he wrote in his famous book, On Writing. … [Read more...]