Comments on: Craft Books for Pantsers

By: Orly Konig-Lopez

Orly Konig-Lopez — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:37:39 +0000

In reply to Lisa Ciarfella. Ha! Don't you just love the wedgie you get after all that pantsing? Feels good to settle into the plotting revision phase after that. :-)

By: Orly Konig-Lopez

Orly Konig-Lopez — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:35:54 +0000

In reply to Roni Loren (@RoniLoren). Entrancing the pantsing ... *scuttling off to buy that book* Thanks for the recommendation, Roni!

By: Orly Konig-Lopez

Orly Konig-Lopez — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:32:28 +0000

In reply to Laura Drake. the WFWA retreat will be such fun. And next year we have Lisa Cron ... Hello Story Genius!!!!!! :-)

By: Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:16:40 +0000

In reply to Jenny Hansen. Yeah, I miss y'all too. Between writing and avoiding writing, my blog consumption has been way down.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 05:10:35 +0000

In reply to Joel D Canfield. We miss your face around here, Joel! It's great to see you. :-)

By: Lisa Ciarfella

Lisa Ciarfella — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:04:02 +0000

like Orly's response above...pants, pants, pants, then plot the hell out of it!
HAHAHAHA

By: cynnaden

cynnaden — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:07:36 +0000

Lisa Cron was here last Thursday, September 8th at our local bookstore, Vroman's. She presented a mini workshop based on Story Genious, answered questions, and did a book signing. She is amazing! I am hooked!

By: Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:19:23 +0000

In reply to Orly Konig-Lopez. I did the pendulum thing: pants pants pants plot plot plot and finally, finally, after a series of posts at Steven "War of Art" Pressfield's site, I've realized the "get your pants on, then straighten them out" method.

By: Joel D Canfield

Joel D Canfield — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:17:21 +0000

In reply to Jenny Hansen. I love story structure and have a dozen books on it, but Wired for Story is the one that crosses the boundaries best. Also, just plain brilliant. Though, there IS my own plotting-for-pantsers tool which I created for just such a contingency.

By: Roni Loren (@RoniLoren)

Roni Loren (@RoniLoren) — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 14:16:20 +0000

I'm a pantser with a craft book addiction. I have shelves and shelves of them. I love Save the Cat but my favorite book that embraced pantsing was Story Trumps Structure by Steven James. He doesn't just talk about pantsing, he embraces it fully and argues it can be the best way to write a story. He gives great tools to use to work with pantsing, how to build your characters. and what to do when you get stuck, etc. I made worksheets from it, lol. It's fantastic.