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WIP #1: final edits before publishing, and cover art

WIP #2: percolating on the back burner

WIP #3: drafting the heck out of it! (we're pantsers and go direct to draft when an idea hits)
weeknightwriters.bsky.social Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 22h
Monday #FirstDraftFall Check-In: What aspects of story planning are you going to work on this week? Do you have a specific goal?
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October 6, 2026 at 2:54 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #novelists
October 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
kcstrocchia.bsky.social
I mean, we're all different, right?

Beyond Pantsing and Plotting: Discovering My Actual Process kcstrocchia.com/2026/10/05/b...

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Beyond Pantsing and Plotting: Discovering My Actual Process
Even if you’re new to writing, you’ve probably heard the idea that writers usually fall into one of two categories: Pantsers and Plotters. But, as with anything else, the truth is that …
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October 5, 2026 at 11:41 PM
arcrooksmoor.bsky.social
Yes, people often categorise authors into plotters and pantsers which I am but I hate that term, so use 'evolver' instead. Yes, sometimes I get so far and have to break off and come back later. The longest I have gone between starting writing a novel and completing it, is 24 years.
October 5, 2026 at 1:43 PM
elwolfsblood.bsky.social
I got a lot of nice advice from planners and plantsers and pantsers yesterday and think I might go buy a fancy notebook to keep some actual notes for the first time maybe ever.

Hope everyone is feeling alright and doing well 💙
October 5, 2026 at 6:55 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #IAN1
October 5, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #noveltip
October 4, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #amediting
October 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
thisphillyfan.bsky.social
Pitt Pantsers?
October 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
cyborggrizzly.bsky.social
Always been one of those #pantsers so I could use some help from some #plotters to build #writing features that could teach me a thing or two.
emma.social.graver.app Graver - Emmaline Autumn @emma.social.graver.app · 3d
Graver's first beta cohort starts next week! Right now you're guaranteed to get in if you sign up to the waitlist before Monday (October 12) at 12 AM MDT, so sign up if you want the chance to shape this WIP feature! #writing #writers
October 2, 2026 at 11:25 PM
airedontvtoday.bsky.social
15 years ago on October 2, 2011, TV show 'Crash Canyon' aired episode "The Out of Pantsers"
October 2, 2026 at 11:47 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #noveljourney
October 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #tips
October 1, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #OnWriting
September 30, 2026 at 2:45 AM
emeraldshadow.bsky.social
Pantsers unite!
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September 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #novels
September 29, 2026 at 2:45 AM
cjhargrave.bsky.social
Writers typically fall on a seem of the pants (pantsers) or an analytical fleshing out (planners) of their prose. I'd say I'm somewhere in the middle of the two, leaning more so as a planner. Some say plantser, but god does that sound terrible. But gardening may be the best analogy for this work.
September 28, 2026 at 11:53 PM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #reading
September 28, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #ASMSG
September 27, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #amwriting
September 26, 2026 at 2:45 AM
wyrdscience.bsky.social
my favourite part of Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien. remember he started work on LotR in 1937, at this point it’s 1942, it was finally published in 1954

If he ever does get beatified it will great for writers to finally have a patron saint of procrastinators & pantsers
A photo of a page from a book: But Stanley Unwin continued to take an interest in the progress of the 'new Hobbit', and in December 1942 he received a letter from Tolkien which reported: It is now approaching completion. I hope to get a little free time this vacation, and might hope to finish it off early next year. It has reached Chapter XXXI and will require at least six more to finish (these are already sketched)’ Yet Chapter XXXI (the original number of Flotsam and Jetsam') was only at the end of what became Book III; and in the event there were to be not six but thirty-one more chapters before the book was complete. Tolkien tried to tackle the story in the months that followed, and he wrote a little more of it. But by the summer of 1943 he had to admit that he was 'dead stuck.
September 25, 2026 at 9:28 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #novel
September 25, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #writingbooks
September 24, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bethbarany.bsky.social
Struggling to start your novel? "Plan Your Novel Like A Pro" is the ultimate guide for new writers! Discover the art of planning with an organic twist - because even pantsers can have structured fun. bit.ly/3sydOsz #author
September 23, 2026 at 2:45 AM
bombycillacedrorum.bsky.social
William Shakespeare: one of the all-time great pantsers?
September 22, 2026 at 10:11 PM