https://writersinthestormblog.com A Blog On Writing Wed, 29 Jan 2025 05:31:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://writersinthestormblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/WITS-Logo-150x150.jpg https://writersinthestormblog.com 32 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/05/writers-pantser-plotter-roadster/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/05/writers-pantser-plotter-roadster/#comments Fri, 13 May 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45343 William F. Wu states the pantser/plotter terms fit all writers to some degree. He started as a pantser and became more plotter-like.

The post Writers: Pantser, Plotter … Roadster? first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/05/writers-pantser-plotter-roadster/feed/ 33 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/11/7-plot-structures-for-pantsers/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/11/7-plot-structures-for-pantsers/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=41317 by John Peragine For NaNoWriMo, I decided it was time to write book two of my trilogy, The Secrets of the Twilight Djinn. I learned volumes by just finishing the first book of the series. Book one was a bit of a fluke (I wrote about it here and here) and I had to make […]

The post 7 Plot Structures for Pantsers first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/11/7-plot-structures-for-pantsers/feed/ 32 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/08/sticky-note-thoughts-for-plotters-and-pantsers/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/08/sticky-note-thoughts-for-plotters-and-pantsers/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2020 07:02:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=40681 IngramSpark editor, Leigh Cheak, believes sticky notes can save your writing at any point in the process. Read on to find out how!

The post Sticky Note Thoughts for Plotters and Pantsers first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2020/08/sticky-note-thoughts-for-plotters-and-pantsers/feed/ 24 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/importance-of-the-original-scene/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/importance-of-the-original-scene/#comments Fri, 19 May 2017 11:01:07 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31607 Lisa Cron I had a lot of great questions this month, but Laura Drake’s question goes directly to the very heart – the foundation -- of your novel. She asks: “I'm stuck on The Origin Scene. Partially, I think, because it feels like if I get it wrong, the rest of my book is screwed. Any […]

The post The Origin Scene: Where Your Story REALLY Starts first appeared on Writers In The Storm.]]> https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/importance-of-the-original-scene/feed/ 35 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/ https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/05/mining-your-life-for-story/#comments Mon, 15 May 2017 11:02:44 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=31585 Kate Moretti A few weeks ago, the fabulous Kimberly Brock wrote a post about the fear of the blank page. She claimed that there are people who love it and she called them psychopaths and equated it to jumping out of airplanes. I’m here to confess: I am that psychopath. I just handed in my […]

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