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There are two ways to write a novel.  Plotting (you make an outline, a plan, a roadmap if you will, and then you sit down and write it) and pantsing (you write "by the seat of your pants, throwing caution to the wind).  So when I get asked if I'm a plotter or a pantser, I'm all like er, uh, hold on, let me?  Pantser?  I think?  But I kind of, um, do planny things? And it gets kind of awkward because in these inarticulate moments I have managed to confuse everyone including myself. And probably spilled a drink. In recent discussions, however, I've had a bit of a revelation, silly as it is. I've realized that I -- like many writers -- am a pl