hi everyone
i am interested in what you all think about pre-plotting or going with the flow? Do you all make a frame work and have the story mapped out before you start, or do you think there is something in just sitting down and writing, say a thousand words per night, and seeing where it takes you? Can you make a first draft this way, and then plot it out after that?
From my own experience I seem to find that unexpected things occur if I just go with the flow, and it seems to be easier to get outside my own experience, and into something that is truly 'fictional' but by the same token, the story I thought I was writing, has a tendency to vanish for a bit as we go off on a tangent.
Thoughts Anyone?
BarleyAP