Write Like a Pulp Writer: Lessons from Writing a Short Story a Week for a Year: Pantser Rebellion Writing Guide
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Do you want to write more stories?
Learning to write regularly and consistently is the most important skill to learn in this new world of independent writing.
In this writer's guide, Linda M. Adams reveals how she wrote a short story a week for an entire year. She kept up this pace while juggling a day job, daily life, and writing classes. The secrets are easier than you think.
- Managing your day job and your writing
- Master coming up with ideas
- Keys to starting a story
- Conquering the inner critic
This book shows you how to write smarter and be the writer you've always wanted to be. Join the Pantser Rebellion!
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PREFACE: HOW THE PANTSER REBELLION CAME ABOUT
I’m what’s called a pantser in writing circles. Depending on who you talk to, it’s often not complimentary.
The name pantser comes from the phrase writing by the seat of your pants.
It’s also called discovery writing, gardening writing, no outline people (NOP), and Writing into the Dark (WITD).
If you’ve visited writing circles, particularly message boards, you’ve run into the attitude from other writers that the only way to write is to start with an outline. Worse, it’s not just writers.
I started writing when I was eight. I wrote like I read, following where the story took me. But a non-writing relative took me aside and instructed me how to do a linear outline. A friend of the family also insisted I needed to outline. It was crazy! I was handwriting 10-page stories on wide-ruled notebook paper and everyone thought my process was broken because I didn’t outline. This is how obsessive people are over this topic.
Once I got online, I found more of the same thing. You can search on pantser
and find hundreds of blog posts all titled with some variation of Pantser vs. Plotter.
An outliner offers a superficial definition, often with puzzlement at the oddity of it. Then she dives deep into her outlining process. The plotter
part of this comparison is a straight-put down, implying that when you pants a novel, you don’t have a plot (plot are events in the story. It’s very hard not to have those at all).
On writing message boards, outliners accused pantsers of doing writing wrong and directed to get with the program. Pantsers are pressured so much to outline that the internet is littered with blog posts from reformed pantsers
who probably aren’t writing anymore. I can easily find posts on outlining for pantsers,
or structure for pantsers,
which is another version of You must outline.
It isn’t even enough for you to say to another writer, "This is what works for