Jabrosky
Banned
I've finished the story's first draft, but it ended up defying the written outline in favor of a plot I thought up in my head.I've experimented with both pantsing and planning, but for my current project (actually an assignment for my creative writing class) I am definitely going the planned route. My outline isn't really meticulous though, it just lists the setting, protagonists, conflicts (or "problems" as I prefer to call them), and most important plot plots. I will present my outline in Powerpoint form to the whole class tomorrow.
I wonder whether certain story ideas (or "idea seeds") are more conducive to pantsing or planning than others. I would think that if you start off with a mental summary of the whole plot (e.g. characters go on quest for X), you need to plan the whole thing out whereas discovery writing is easier if you start off only with a few scenes in mind.