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Can Your Writing Practice Blend the Pantser with the Planner?
Pantser or planner — your writing practice is yours and yours alone.
For most of my writing career, I’ve been a pantser.
Pantser = one who writes by the seat of their pants.
An idea popped into my head — and I sat down with my notebook or at the keyboard and started on it. And in this way, I created multiple stories and produced several novels.
Sometime in 1998 or so, I sat down and wrote a scene with a sorcerer standing atop a mound of earth. He was unleashing his power, rolling the ground, and taking out a lot of soldiers who’d been pursuing him. But with that act, he burned himself out.
While this scene no longer appears in Seeker as written (it’s now a partial flashback), this scene led to what is now 3 finished fantasy novels, one more underway, and another envisioned in my Source Chronicles series. And thus far, all of that has been written almost exclusively as a pantser.
After watching Star Wars — The Clone Wars in 2020, an idea popped into my head. What if my original vision of the clone wars — as mentioned by Obi-Wan in the original movie — left a whole lot of clones unemployed after the war? What becomes of them?
