To Plan or Not to Plan
It's an old debate - one that never ceases to divide writers. Should you make a plan before you write - or should you just start and see what happens? An esteemed subscriber recently raised the issue again in the context of 'types' of writers. It seemed to her that genre fiction writers probably needed a plan in order to deal with the complexities of plotting - and cut down on editing in the subsequent drafts. However, she maintained, it was the more 'literary' writers that insisted that planning somehow stifled creativity. And that a good literary writer didn't mind editing for sense and structure after the first draft was down. She asked me which I thought was the best approach. Do Plans Work? It's hard to imagine a business succeeding without a plan - but clearly some do. Even very large businesses - which surely don't intend to go billions into debt, though it seems to happen all too often nowadays. Some would say that many marriages survive without ...