An interesting post with a very sensible bottom line. Based on my own writing experiences I couldn't agree more with "try both methods, try different variations of them and stick with whatever works best for you as an individual" if I tried to.
From a very early time (probably elementary school?) I've always been taught that the key to any kind of successful writing was "plot, plot, plot in advance or otherwise your project *will* fail before you've even typed the first sentence". However, this method never quite worked for me, but only caused me to get bored, frustrated, forever lost in research... For lack of better, less pathetic sounding words: Every time I that I tried plotting there came a point when every single scene, every paragraph that I wrote felt crushed down by the weight of my grand master plot and my enourmous, quite detailed character sheets ;-)
Pantsing on the other hand feels much more natural to me. I can lean back, actually enjoy the writing process and let my subconscious do all the work.
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From a very early time (probably elementary school?) I've always been taught that the key to any kind of successful writing was "plot, plot, plot in advance or otherwise your project *will* fail before you've even typed the first sentence". However, this method never quite worked for me, but only caused me to get bored, frustrated, forever lost in research... For lack of better, less pathetic sounding words: Every time I that I tried plotting there came a point when every single scene, every paragraph that I wrote felt crushed down by the weight of my grand master plot and my enourmous, quite detailed character sheets ;-)
Pantsing on the other hand feels much more natural to me. I can lean back, actually enjoy the writing process and let my subconscious do all the work.
Pantsing, on the