“Pefectionism kills momentum.”
I think it can also kill creativity. Having a rough outline surely helps but outlining every detail, limits your freedom while writing the story. Finding a good balance between free writing and outlining seems to be the goal.
I’ve been doing Plantsing without knowing it the entire time, it seems.
But I’ve also tried Pantsing – and it lead to such bad results that I never published the stories I wrote with it.
Again, for future novels, I’ve planned to try different Plotting Methods. Let’s see if that improves my writing.
My latest novel is freely available on Amazon until Friday. Grab a copy here:
US | https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSBJ4CW9
DE | https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0GHS2CCH7
Synopsis
When a stranger bursts into his office after hours, a New York psychiatrist has no idea that this man is about to change his life.
The stranger desperately asks for help. But the psychiatrist doesn’t know him and turns him away: “You’ll need to make an appointment for next week.”
“Next week?” the stranger asks. “By then it might already be too late.”
“Too late—for what?”
The stranger answers with a single word: Murder.
The psychiatrist decides to hear the mysterious man out, because instinctively he senses that he may be the only one who can prevent a catastrophe.
It’s a full novel, not the usual short story. But the promo deal works as always: The Kindle version is free from now until Saturday morning (in Germany, it always runs out at 11:59 A.M.).
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A character page – at least for the main characters – might actually be a good idea.
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I’m currently taking lots of notes from Grok’s advice. In the future I’ve planned to write one novel with each outlining method recommended and then post a detailed article about each with a real life case study. It’s a long-term project that is going to take me years, but it should be interesting.
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