I have to confess that, as a writer, I haven’t been overly good in at writing on the fly. It used to be the way I’d start my stories and writing projects. I was proud of being a perennial “pantster”. As I have continued to hone my craft over the years however, I have become more reliant on planning and plotting my projects, knowing how they begin and progress towards a conclusion, accounting for plot, character and narrative ahead of time and writing to a plan.

As I continue to recover at hom...