by Elizabeth Craig, @elizabethscraig
I loved the organic, ‘pantster’ approach to writing. I followed the genre-determined general structure (meet victim, meet suspects, question suspects…) and then happily made up each story as I went along.
This worked really well until I started writing three books a year…a book each for several different series. Then, apparently, I was juggling too many balls at once and I had to give myself more of a plan to follow.
I’ve got a post up on Writer Unboxed, which is a great resource for writers if you’re not familiar with it. My post covers how and why I changed to outlines and what I learned from the experience, analyzing my results. Hope you’ll pop over.