{"id":952,"date":"2016-10-06T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2016-10-06T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:26:55","slug":"plotting-or-pantsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=952","title":{"rendered":"Plotting, or Pantsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1936\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_0060-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a>I know where I sit, I have tried for many years of NaNo Pantsing. this is where you just sit and type, see where the story takes you. Although I found that this was not for me. I would start well and generally I always know how a story is going to end, but I haven&#8217;t a clue how to get there. So, I am not a Pantser.<\/p>\n<p>Plotting is the way forward, I think the way I work I will do better if I have a good idea of wher eI am going to go with the story and the twists along the way. Because of this I have started plotting or outlining for the NaNo challenge. I am to know wher eI am going before I start writing this year. Should make the journey allot easier.<\/p>\n<p>To try and get me ready I am currently trying to quickly read through &#8220;Outlining your novel, Map your way to success&#8221; I bought this a while ago and am working my way through it to see if it can offer me any gems for the plotting I am currently in the process of doing for NaNo.<\/p>\n<p>I will let you know how I get on wit the book, I am currently reading about what kind of tool to use for outlining. I am reading about using Mind Maps at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel a routine setting in&#8230; I can feel change coming, I can feel my writers journey progressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know where I sit, I have tried for many years of NaNo Pantsing. this is where you just sit and type, see where the story takes you. Although I found that this was not for me. I would start well and generally I always know how a story is going to end, but I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,8,78,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-life","category-nano","category-nanowrimo-2","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}