{"id":977,"date":"2019-05-08T03:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2019-05-08T03:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:41:03","slug":"to-write-is-to-be-a-pantser-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/08\/to-write-is-to-be-a-pantser-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"To write is to be a pantser #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello. My name is Dee, and I am a pantser.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I\u2019ve tried so hard to be a plotter but it just doesn\u2019t happen. The closest I come is to plan things in my head. And maybe a little closer is a class I took on using motivation to plot. (Laurie Schnebly Campbell<\/a>, Plotting Via Motivation, writeruniv.wordpress.com\/classes<\/a>) It\u2019s a great class and Laurie is a wonderful teacher, but I still haven\u2019t wrapped my head around how to apply it beyond the \u201cclassroom.\u201d I think it needs practice, and if I\"A weren\u2019t a pantser I\u2019d be better at practicing stuff.<\/p>\n

I believe my biggest problem with being an organized plotter is that I procrastinate, and I tend toward the lazy. Plotting\u2014actually thinking through the course of the book and characters and sticking to (pretty much) the plan takes discipline and effort.<\/p>\n

And me? Listen. I agreed to marry my husband on the spur of the moment while we were driving along the highway. We had a nine-day engagement. When we decided to drive truck, we didn\u2019t check out the company, just finished our lease, sold our furniture, and took off through four states, trusting things would work out.<\/p>\n

So you see, I\u2019m not much on planning, and never have been. When I climb in the car, I don\u2019t mind taking a map but I don\u2019t want to plan to ruin the fun \"Startingof driving wherever the spirit takes me. And like my driving, if I didn\u2019t write by the seat of my pants, I wouldn\u2019t write at all. Being a pantser is for better or worse, just like my marriage.<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>: Seriously ambitious man seeks woman to encourage his goals, support his (hopeful) position as Headmaster of Westover Academy, and be purer than Caesar’s wife. Good luck with that!<\/p>\n

Naval Maneuvers<\/a>: When a woman requires an earth-shattering crush of pleasure to carry her away, she can’t do better than to call on the US Navy. Sorry, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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