By the seat of my pants…

fountain-pen-447576_640I have been working on a new novel project recently and had a great start.  I got to 12000 words and then the dreaded stall.  My momentum came to a halt and now I am struggling to get going again.  The problem?  Pantsing.  I have been writing this story using the pantsing method.  For anyone not familiar, pantsing is where you just kinda have a general idea where you want your story to go, make up some characters and start writing.  You just let the story go where it goes.  I am usually an outlining type person.  I like to have outlines of the stories based on scenes or chapters so that the writing goes much smoother.  This one was different.

I really didn’t even have a full idea of what the story was.  I just had a really cool set of characters that I wanted to write about.  I put on some music and let the story take me to where the story wanted to go.  Unfortunately, I stalled.  I came to a point in the story where I had no idea what was going to happen next.  So now I am stuck.  I have a chapter that I have to get through in order to get going again and nothing is happening.

So now the question is do I start an outline to get me through? Or crack out the bourbon?  Hopefully I will find a solution before the three day novel writing weekend.  I was intending to get a whole lot more done if not finish the first draft on that weekend.  With a goal of 60,000 words, I should be able to get that finished.  Just got to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get to work!
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What is your preferred method of writing? Pantsing or outline?