Plotting or Pantsing? -- A Middle Way?
Writing your Novel Plotting or Pantsing? - A Middle Way? In yesterday's post, I talked about the two best-known methods of how to write your novel, Plotting and Pantsing and I said that for the second book in the Agathan trilogy, The Silver Child, I was going to use a hybrid method. So today I'm going to explain the method I'm using so you can see there are other ways to go about writing your novel. First, a disclaimer. Using any of these different techniques does not guarantee your work will be published, nothing, not even good planning, can make up for an uninteresting protagonist, unconnected story arcs with weak emotional and action plots, and badly written dialogue. That said, you can overcome all of the above if at least your story is well constructed and it doesn't matter how you do it, just do it! So, The Silver Child. How is that story being planned? First, I had the idea for this part of the trilogy just after I started Return of the Burning Man so it&
