pantser
Pantser - "A NaNoWriMo * term that means that you 'fly by the seat of your pants' when you are writing your novel. You have nothing but the absolute basics planned out for your novel. This outlook towards writing is often opposed by the 'planner', who knows exactly what is going to happen, when it will happen, and where it will happen. There is often enmity between the two types of writers." The above quote is lifted directly from the online Urban Dictionary ** and I post it here because the whole debate of plotting versus pantsing (I might have just invented that word) is very much exercising my mind at the moment. Back in September I wrote about the struggle I'd been having with doing any kind of writing at all, and how I'd employed one of my trusty old tricks for demolishing writer's block; namely writing for just eight minutes every morning. Well, as usual, the trick had worked for me and I found myself turning up at the blank page every