Plotters, pantsers, editors and rough drafters.

by Deborah Finn
24th April 2013

If you are a pantser, are you able to write really rough first drafts and just get to the end of the story before you start revising and editing? Or is it possible to be a pantser whilst also being an edit-as-you-go writer? i would think that typically pantsers are rough drafters, and plotters are edit-as-you-go. But perhaps it's possible to have a hybrid? Let's have a little survey! What type are you? I think I am the slowest of all creatures - the plotter who is an edit-as-you-go writer.

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I have to edit as I go - I wish I was a pantser!

Editing as I go takes such a long time, but it's the only way I can do it!

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Megan King
25/04/2013

It depends upon my mood. Mostly I'm a pantser, but if the creative muse has left me then I'll go back and do some editing of earlier work.

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For me I tend to write as a spur of the moment with no planning, it's only when I'm actually writing that I get an idea on how I feel I could end my story and start working around that. I don't tend to correct anything until the end, unles a friend points something out. Not sure which I'd be but my friend Becky (another aspiring author) is a definite pantser! We both find we tend to stop a story and not go back to it for quite a while so not all of ours are finished :)

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