There are many articles out there on this topic, so let us cut right to the chase with a couple of solid definitions for clarity. A “pantser” is a frank term for an author who writes “by the seat of their pants”. The more literary and poetic types might prefer “writing into the dark” and the adventurous may lean towards calling it “discovery writing”.

Typically, a discovery writer creates bottom up, starting with a seed and freewriting from there. They blaze a trail, seeing where it carries them with little to almost no planning. I say almost because there is always something. A seed is the smallest of plans when you think about it. Within it are all the things necessary for a tree or plant to grow. A pantser may have roughed out the book in their head, made mental notes, and tweaked and refined their idea ...

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