Fixing Wandering Middles

Categories: Craft | Plotting | Writing

This panel focuses on strategies for plotting and outlining, with some authors identifying as plotters who create detailed outlines before writing, while others described themselves as “pantsers” who write by intuition, or hybrids of both approaches.

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