tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post7235582699118012287..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The importance of being flexible by Vanessa HarbourUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-30152420370342598482019-08-12T16:46:58.386+01:002019-08-12T16:46:58.386+01:00I'm a pantser too - very much so. When I'm...I'm a pantser too - very much so. When I'm inside a plot, I become part of it, and I really don't know exactly where it's leading me. Characters speak to me, sometimes forcing me to change direction, and I once had what was almost an eerily 'psychic' exerience - sort of explicable eventually, but quite disturbing. At present I'm re-working a lot of stuff I feel should have found a home, which does not please my agent.<br /><br />When I was doing them, I got SO much out of school visits, including a whole book with a plot revolving round what I felt to be a quite needy small boy. Re- disability, I had a very small and temporary taste of what this must be like this year, when I had serious ankle surgery with an extremely long recovery period, so carers plus immobility for quite a while, and I still have to walk with a crutch. For people like you, who can rise above their physical state to be actively creative, I have huge admiration! Enid Richemonthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17218197995089241666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-12801338918799519672019-08-12T11:33:08.704+01:002019-08-12T11:33:08.704+01:00Thank you for your kind words. I have added a cred...Thank you for your kind words. I have added a credit to the quote. I can almost guarantee if I plan anything it will fall to pieces almost immediately. <br /><br />Like you, I cannot plan in detail a book before I write. I am definitely a pantser. I might know where I think I am going to end a story but how I am going to get there, who knows! But that's the exciting bit. I love that part of writing.Ness Harbourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370427313780759711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-72159197381130245092019-08-12T10:19:30.792+01:002019-08-12T10:19:30.792+01:00First, sending you huge admiration for the way you...First, sending you huge admiration for the way you've coped with everything.<br /><br />Second: YES! I've never thought of it as 'being flexible' -- never thought of it as anything, really -- but I so agree. I've never seen the point of these 'life-plans' and 'five-year plans' when 'life is what happens while you're making other plans,' (credit quote to whichever one of the people supposed to have said it that you prefer.)<br /><br />Never saw the point of immensely detailed book plans when (in my experience) you're going to throw the whole thing away about halfway through. Pantsers rule!Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com