tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814045544257148284.post3614257610359891501..comments2014-10-17T16:20:49.687-07:00Comments on Theology and Dragons : Seat of your pants. Brendan Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01340357132118745860noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814045544257148284.post-77567024305107306062013-09-26T20:05:06.800-07:002013-09-26T20:05:06.800-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Lucas Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662443172865506409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814045544257148284.post-22631769143125948552013-09-26T20:04:54.787-07:002013-09-26T20:04:54.787-07:00I wouldn't personally say there's anything...I wouldn't personally say there's anything wrong with the approach, but something wrong with the conclusions of the people who use it. Some (perhaps even many) authors are all too quick to decide they have arrived and become that great author and in their excitement fail to critique their own work quite harshly enough.<br /><br />Me, I'm something of a hybrid. I can't come up with creative ideas just sitting down and trying to plan them out. That always turns out something very dull for me. BUT, if I get an idea and just start writing it, then from that little bit of actual writing I can begin to extrapolate where the story might go. I come across lots of interesting ideas this way. Then I usually scrap my first effort and build off of the good ideas that came out of the hybrid brainstorming/planning and try them out in a new story. Each time I do less and less planning and more and more just writing and eventually I have a solid foundation to work with and I can plan, albeit vaguely, from there.<br /><br />I'd hate to try to write without any planning. I'd also hate to try to write with lots of planning. If I bog myself down with details that I have to write, I lose interest. There's no more freedom. As I go along and reach point G in my grand scheme, a vastly more creative idea comes to mind that upsets H and onward. Then I'm lost. I have to plan again, only to have the same issue come up later. It gets frustrating and before I know it my work is poor and not worth all the planning I put into it in the first place.<br /><br />So you see, it's not so much about planning vs anti-planning, it's about some people need to always leave that creative window open and take things in slowly, and other people can open a creative door, take everything in, and close it behind them. I'm the first kind of person and I think that's a fine place to be.Lucas Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04662443172865506409noreply@blogger.com