Pros and Cons of Both Planning and Pantsing
Pantsing – Pros
With Pantsing you can get going quicker. You just start writing or typing and you’re creating your story. It’s more spontaneous, you don’t have to follow any pre-ordained track, you just go where the story takes you. This allows you to be freer and you can experiment or just write without any thought of where the story needs to end up.
Pantsing – Cons
Unfortunately, this does mean that you can end up not knowing where you are going and end up writing yourself into a corner with no idea how to get back to the story. It also means you have to write in a linear way. Once you start, the story must continue as you are writing it. You can’t hop about from chapter to chapter, it must be
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Traditionally, the three part or three act structure was used for plays and novels but more recently this has evolved into a four part (or more) structure to alleviate the difficulty of writing the second act. This was the bulk of the play or story and has pften been seen as the hardest to accomplish. The beginning with the set up is usually fine as is the final conflict or resolution. But what should happen in the middle. To avoid this lull I tend to adopt a four part story structure which incorporates the bits and pieces of 7- and 8- part structure and rolls it all in to …show more content…
The set-up is where the background of the hero and the world they inhabit is introduced. You’re setting the scene for the rest of the novel and it should give a rough idea of the day to day life of the hero but before anything untoward has occurred. It should mention the characteristics of the hero, particularly any faults, one of which should be a failing that would initially prevent them from surviving whatever you are going to throw at them in the guise of the life-changing incident at the end of the first section.
The life-changing event must be so cataclysmic that the life of the hero is changed forever. This is the point at which the hero cannot carry on his day to day life but must go somewhere or do something to counteract it and cannot avoid it.
The first plot point is when the hero makes the decision (not that you should have left him with much choice!) to follow where the life-changing event leads and forces him to leave his everyday life behind. This is generally the end of the first section or quarter of your book, i.e. for the purposes of our example, about 15,000
How the setting was expressed is also a vital part for the development of the story. The opening paragraph gives a vivid description of the situation as would physically been seen.
To fully appreciate the significance of the plot one must fully understand the heroic journey. Joseph Campbell identified the stages of the heroic journey and explains how the movie adheres meticulously to these steps. For example, the first stage of the hero’s journey is the ordinary world (Campbell). At the beginning, the structure dictates that the author should portray the protagonist in their ordinary world, surrounded by ordinary things and doing ordinary tasks so that the author might introduce the reasons that the hero needs the journey in order to develop his or her character or improve his or her life (Vogler 35). The point of this portrayal is to show the audience what the protagonist’s life is currently like and to show what areas of his or her life are conflicted or incomplete. When the call to adventure occurs, the protagonist is swept away into another world, one that is full of adventure, danger, and opportunities to learn what needs to be learned. T...
First and perhaps most essential to any story is the plot. The plot is defined as,
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Authors’ use of setting and point of view greatly affect a narrative because they form the readers’ image of the story. First person narration can cause questioning of the narrators reliability, but this bias view can help create more intimacy between the protagonist and the reader. A third person point of view is more objective and allows the author to create the voice of the narrative; the author shapes the story. Through whichever point of view, the author develops a setting. Setting provides tone for the story. A well-established setting can enhance the story’s overall meaning. The combination of setting and point of view in John Updike’s “A&P” helps develop the story’s emphasis on conformity versus nonconformity. Likewise, setting and
During the first few chapters, the reader begins to examine the plot, absorb the characters lives and take in the setting. One would never guess what terrible tragic events would occur as each page is turned and more information is gathered. As the reader continues, each page dramatically changes the plot. Othello and Gatsby both commence as outsiders, unaware of their surroundings. Disorder initiates when other characters begin to take action, influencing madness, eventually leading to the climax, where everything turns into turmoil. In the end, consequence leads to every character’s boundless downfall.
1. How does the opening scene contrast with what happens at the end of the story?
Plot Structure – I felt that most of the exposition took place in the beginning of the first page. For the rest of the story there was mostly rising action. Then, I felt that the climax came when Julian sees his mother crumple to the ground. The falling action and resolution are packaged together in the last couple paragraphs.
A traditional text is usually written in the sequence of happenings. As Aristotle mentioned, the order of a unified plot is a chronological happenings of beginning, middle, and end. The beginning is the main action that makes readers follow the story more interestedly; the middle presumes what has occurred in the past and requires something to end; and the end comes after all the occurrences to sum up and finish the story (Abrams 161). In in contradiction to modern texts, the story does not grow in the linear form mentioned. The action passes through a character`s awareness. It is the flow of tho...
Sagging is a popular trend all over the world, it is not a trend that is specific to a location. Sagging is when people, mostly men, sag their pants below their waist exposing their underwear. Some people think that this is an offensive fashion due to the origination and some people considered the clothing style public indecency. Many public officials around the world are trying to outlaw the saggy pants fashion. Even thought some may not paticulary like the fashion, sagging your pants should not be categorized as indecent exposure or considered illegal activity. The Editorial: Wildwood Pants Patrol: Don’t Let Them Down, out of the Philadelphia Inquirer says, “Dress is after all, an important form of personal expression.
The first phase, Separation, usually begins with the introduction of the Hero to the audience in the Ordinary World. The Hero’s Journey begins at a starting point, home, a place to which he may eventually return. The main purpose of introducing the Hero in the Ordinary World is to create a vivid contrast with the strange new world that he is about to enter. Thus, Alice begins her quest sitting by her sister on the bank of a lake. The moment she gets bored with glancing over the book that has no pictures, and, therefore, it makes her sleepy, is the signal that something is about to happen.
four paragraph to fully invoke the mood of the story. The biggest trap a reader falls into while
the beginning of all the bad events that occur in the remaining of the novel.
Because it explains the most significant problems to explain deeper and also it is important to have because it is the purpose of which the hero embarks on to insure that his story is true or fake and will never change from his course or her. Because it is what defines the hero and what problems he'll face in his journey. Hansel and Gretel,witches,indians and William Bonney. Because i chose this segment because it best fits me an the journey that the heroes or protagonists faced were great examples of what i was telling. It gives distinct information to what the reader wants to know or need an the words that some writers use can inform very
Identify the important turning points of the story. Which would be the climax, the point that determines the outcome?