Going through my NaNoWriMo 2019 draft, I noticed two things:
- This book is dumb and fun.
- I still need to reinforce the main plotline (aka everything that isn’t the parties and the romance between 2 of the 3 main characters. I feel so uncomfortable writing cute relationships; I need to wreck that thing somehow).
The aforementioned are kind of NaNo consequences (example: I’m still struggling with the draft I wrote in 2018, which I must finish within the next two months). Yet the main “problem” is me, a consummated pantser who never knows what’s going on in a book until I go through it again and edit the shit out of everything so that my manuscript makes sense.
It’s fine. It’s OK. I just wonder whether I’d finish my first drafts faster if I started out with a clearer idea of what I am doing. LOL: of course you would, dumdum.
But then being a pantser is all about the ride, the discovery, the madness! Man, the crazy tastes so well.
I’ve outlined a few times before (and I’ll have you know I’m fucking good at outlining), but when it comes to writing the chapters, I lose interest within seconds, bored by the idea of knowing where things are going.
How do people stick to an outline? Are we different breeds or something?
I hate having a roadmap; I wanna figure out the ride as I go.