Comments on: OUTLINES ARE THE ZOMBIES EATING MY BRAIN http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/ Author of Paranormal Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-412 Mertianna Georgia Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:53:35 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-412 Love it! Out of the blue and wild and witty. That’s my new motto.

]]> By: Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-411 Mertianna Georgia Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:52:46 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-411 I so agree with you. Writing is an adventure.

]]> By: Pam Giarrizzo http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-410 Pam Giarrizzo Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:32:24 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-410 I’m with you, Mertianna! I’m a total pantser, although I wish I could plot everything out ahead of time. Instead, I find myself writing a cool sentence or paragraph and then saying, “So what happens next?” Maybe it’s better that way. If I know ahead of time everything that’s going to happen, I might get bored actually writing it. As long as I don’t know what comes next, writing it is an adventure.

]]> By: Barbara McFarlane http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-409 Barbara McFarlane Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:31:23 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-409 Clever, Mertianna….and as you know, we went through an onslaught of why we should outline by Mr. Simon. No Can Do.
If I outline, I feel my characters are set and then become stilted because new ones can’t crop up along the way…out of the blue and wild and witty. ;) )
Good work.
B

]]> By: Cindy Sample http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-408 Cindy Sample Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:20:13 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-408 Fun post, Mertianna. In my first two books in my mystery series, I knew who the victims and killer were and the reason behind the murders. Then both times the plot completely changed. For my third book, I was determined to have an outline in advance. That lasted for 15 pages. At that point, the victim refused to let me write her out of the book so I upgraded her to a suspect. Since then, the characters have written the story and I love the magic they’ve produced. Hopefully everyone else will too!

It’s wonderful to be in such great pantser company.

]]> By: Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-407 Mertianna Georgia Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:35:46 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-407 Welcome to the club fellow pants-plotter.

]]> By: Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-406 Mertianna Georgia Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:34:56 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-406 LOL. I know exactly what you’re saying. My characters do strange things before I can stop them!

]]> By: Mona Karel http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-405 Mona Karel Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:20:37 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-405 I’ve tried outlining, I’ve tried pantsting. And everything in between. Seems like each story has its own needs. For some stories an outline won’t hurt. Not a {{shudder}} plot in advance, just a reminder that Gabriel is going to see Clair in town before he actually meets her. My characters constantly surprise me, and that works just fine for my writerly self. The world I created in My Killer My Love came in a rush of information I stayed up late nights to pound out. But I didn’t realize at the time there were so many more stories about the Atrahasis to be told. I did try to outline this current one, honest I did. But Gabriel and Clair MOCKED me. ME, their creator! And they’re telling their own story. Works for me!
LOVE the music for your trailer

]]> By: Cassandra L Shaw http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-404 Cassandra L Shaw Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:13:59 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-404 I can never decide what I want to be. I plot then stop following it, I pantz then have to go back and fix the plot points so I try plotting again. My last MS I plot first five chapters then pantzed after that. That suited that story, in the end I think I’m a pantzer who feels guilty for not plotting.

]]> By: Mertianna Georgia http://www.mertianna.com/outlines-are-the-zombies-eating-my-brain/#comment-403 Mertianna Georgia Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:54:55 +0000 http://www.mertianna.com/?p=726#comment-403 Right on, fellow pantser!

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