{"id":7719,"date":"2019-05-10T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T05:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2019-05-07T13:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T17:28:45","slug":"plotter-with-panter-tendencies-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"Plotter With Pantser Tendencies #MFRWAuthor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re up to week 19 of the MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge and this week’s topic is Plotter or Pantser, and Why?<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve always used a loose outline for my books. I like to know where a story starts, how it ends, and several major plot points in between. For me it’s important to leave wiggle room because every story changes once the actual writing starts. It’s okay to deviate from the outline, and when the changes occur, they usually make the story better and more realistic.<\/p>\n

For example, when writing my most recent full length novel, I changed several action scenes involving the hero. In the outline, he did some things that seemed exciting, but were too far fetched and not true to the character. The changes occurred after discussing the scenes with someone who had greater knowledge than I do regarding certain situations that occurred in the story.<\/p>\n

I guess I’m a hybrid–part plotter and part pantser. Or maybe you could call me a plotter with pantser tendencies. I like to know where a story starts and where it ends, but what happens in between doesn’t always have to go according to plan.<\/p>\n

Are other authors on the MFRW 52-Week Blog Hop plotters or pantsers? Click here<\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n

Also today’s guest blogger, Vicki Batman, discusses her views on plotter or pantser. Check out her post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re up to week 19 of the MFRA 52-Week Blog Challenge and this week’s topic is Plotter or Pantser, and Why? I’ve always used a loose outline for my books. I like to know where a story starts, how it ends, and several major plot points in between. For me it’s important to leave wiggle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[907],"tags":[783,794,715],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mfrw-52-week-blog-challenge","tag-blog-hop","tag-featured","tag-writing-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7768,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}