Sara Bennett's Blog - Posts Tagged "plotter"
Plotter or Pantser
Well I have finished my 2nd novella, Enraptured, which will be for sale in May, and I am now working on my 3rd. I've enjoyed writing the Mockingbird Square series, perhaps because I really only have to please myself (and my readers of course) and no one else. I'm not sure yet how many novellas will be in the series before I finish it with a full size book.
I think I'll know when the time comes.
As I think you can guess I am not a plotter. I've tried to be. Several times before writing a book I have written pages and pages of summary, worked out sub plots, threads, themes, black moments, everything I could think of. And then ... I was bored, and started a new book. So I know by now I just have to go with my process, which is to write and rewrite and eventually find my way forward.
That's not to say I don't plot at all. Usually when I'm someway into the book, I realise I need to change something because I finally have an idea of where the story is heading, so I go back and do that. And then I spend quite a bit of time thinking, usually in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping. It's incredible how problems in the story can work themselves out in the middle of the night.
I wish I could plot more. I think it would be a far more satisfactory way to write a book, and probably far less stressful. But I have a process and like an old married couple we are comfortable with each other.
Look out for Enraptured on the 22nd of May.
I think I'll know when the time comes.
As I think you can guess I am not a plotter. I've tried to be. Several times before writing a book I have written pages and pages of summary, worked out sub plots, threads, themes, black moments, everything I could think of. And then ... I was bored, and started a new book. So I know by now I just have to go with my process, which is to write and rewrite and eventually find my way forward.
That's not to say I don't plot at all. Usually when I'm someway into the book, I realise I need to change something because I finally have an idea of where the story is heading, so I go back and do that. And then I spend quite a bit of time thinking, usually in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping. It's incredible how problems in the story can work themselves out in the middle of the night.
I wish I could plot more. I think it would be a far more satisfactory way to write a book, and probably far less stressful. But I have a process and like an old married couple we are comfortable with each other.
Look out for Enraptured on the 22nd of May.
