Checking in, October 23!

[kinetikatrue]

Hey, lookit that - it's an actual day in the two-day spread I agreed to post a check-in post on. Well, for a few more hours. Somewhere in the world. Improvement, anyway.

That said, in the ten days since I last posted a check-in post, I haven't written much of anything. I mean, I've added a few words to my Yuletide assignment, and thought further about some of the treats I want to write. And I've helped a friend brainstorm the skeleton of her assignment fic for another challenge she's signed up for. But I really need to hash out an actual at least quasi-outline for my Yuletide assignment, since I know where it starts - and where it ends - but the stuff in the middle is mostly a huge question mark. And while my writing style is traditionally pretty much seat-of-the-pants revelations until the plot coheres enough for me to know how it HAS to go, it does help to know what a few of the wayposts along the way look like. So, outlining. Vaguely. And maybe reading some in my chosen trope (s) for research. Haha.

Are the rest of you more outliners or pantsers, some weird hybrid of both...or something completely else?

Comments

[meridian_rose]

I prefer not outlining. I've tried outlining and it works, I get the work done much quicker. Sometimes that's fine. But sometimes I don't love those works because they don't feel as fresh to me, somehow; some of the joy of discovering the story has gone from it? So I'm a hybrid. Some outlining good, too much outlining bad, too little outlining and the fic probably won't ever get finished :P