Posted by Claine October 23rd 2025, 2:34pm
There is just ONE week to go 
I hope you're all ready!
If you haven't done so yet, create a thread introducing your project to the community! Also pop into the chat and say hi to us I can't wait to start writing with you all!
Let's open the comments in this announcement to a discussion! How much prep work have you done for your story, and what kind of writer are you - a pantser, a plotter or the middle ground plantser. For those who don't know these terms, they are defined as such
Pantser: Writes on the seat of their pants. Doesn't have a set destination in mind, and uses the writing process as a chance to explore possibilities.
Plotter: Often does preparatory work, and has a defined story outlined in their head before they start.
Plantser: A mix of the two above categories. Often they have a loose mess of plot threads and use the writing process to work through the difficult knots
I hope you're all ready!If you haven't done so yet, create a thread introducing your project to the community! Also pop into the chat and say hi to us
I can't wait to start writing with you all!Let's open the comments in this announcement to a discussion! How much prep work have you done for your story, and what kind of writer are you - a pantser, a plotter or the middle ground plantser. For those who don't know these terms, they are defined as such
Pantser: Writes on the seat of their pants. Doesn't have a set destination in mind, and uses the writing process as a chance to explore possibilities.
Plotter: Often does preparatory work, and has a defined story outlined in their head before they start.
Plantser: A mix of the two above categories. Often they have a loose mess of plot threads and use the writing process to work through the difficult knots
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- Uhh, most likely plantser, I think?
I haven't even heard of these terms until a few weeks or so ago when the Youtube algorithm recommended me a few videos on writing (I wonder whyyy). My longest writing sprints came from bouts of inspiration about scenes I already had sort of planned in my head and I sort of typed them out all at once, so...
Also, I've done precisely zero prep work, I'm not even sure if I'll be efficient with this mess of a fanfic, supposed I even finish the damn challenge at all. 😠-
Uhh, most likely plantser, I think?
I haven't even heard of these terms until a few weeks or so ago when the Youtube algorithm recommended me a few videos on writing (I wonder whyyy). My longest writing sprints came from bouts of inspiration about scenes I already had sort of planned in my head and I -
Hmm.... I think I'm a Plantser most of the time, but in the case of the story I'm doing for this, I'm more a Plotter as I have planned the story out quite a bit to present on Tolkien Forums. I've also started on some parts of it in a roleplay on Fanatics Plaza, and I have the first prologue chapter pretty much done already.
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i haven't done much prep work other than thinking and coming up with ideas. only 'real' prp work i have done was i did write a really tiny thing with the oc i'm using to remind myself who she is, what she does and how she talks ect. i usually never have a defined plan when i start writing. i just gain some kind of idea for a story, maybe a knowledge of the message or the ending or something, and then just start writing till i figure out where it takes me.
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By nature I am a kind of plotter... or would be.
Because when it comes to organizing all the worldbuilding crossing my AUDHD head, I get completely and totally lost. It's why a lot of my projects sink in the worldbuilding phase.
Of course, part of the reason might be that I'm also the AUDHD flavor of the overachiever... I over-complicate things -
I'm working on my outline this week. I won't be outlining quite as detailed as I usually do. (Chapter by chapter). Probably. But definitely planning scenes.
So excited to start this! -
I don't do an outline and all that... I'd say largely pantser. I know the beginning and end, and some scenes I just kind daydream about through the day.
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Can I say that I'm not a plantser, but a plontser?
Especially here, I'm planning without a plan, but all is already set up, all ideas are there (at least enough to get a storyline), others will come up. The story is fix with a beginning and an ending, the rest is all blurred fantasizing and picking up points already written somewhere. So I have my thing, like writing (sorry I steal that idea) a chapter a week, with the chapters 'quite' defined, the story line set up (as this was planned since long) but without the slightest idea what is really going to happen, I see scenes and moments, I see thoughts and memories, I see... And yet not the slightest plan how to get it on paper... oh sorry on pages -
I'm definitely a plantser. I get scenes and plot points stuck in my head, but I don't always see how they connect until I actually sit down and start writing it out to see where the story takes me.
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I want to answer this question even though I'm the one who asked it
I think webcomics by their nature must be a little bit pantsed. An extended webcomic could be a 5-10 year project. My current webcomic, is approaching it's 4th anniversary. Even if you spend an incredible amount of time panel-by-panel planning your comic, there's no way that in 5 years, you're going to agree with everything your past self set down.
I approached my current comic with a start point, an end point and a vague trajectory, but to be honest, I'm kind off hitting a point where decisions I'm making now contradict decisions I made back in year one. So, even though I can never be 100% planned and ready for what's to come, I want my new project to have a more solid foundation so I don't run into these issues again. -
I think I am a mixed of the two. Whenever I have an idea for a story, I always think about "the end" as my first progress. The plots after or in the middle will be decided by fate. That way, it actually easier and the other plots would come out as the progress while the writing is in the line. It's sometimes difficult, sometimes easy when ideas are overflowing. Sometimes I just let the characters choose their own fate.
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My prep is minimal.
I’m most-definitely a pantser who sometimes plans if I feel I need a better grasp on some piece of the subject.
Reading a guide or instruction manual? NEVER.
Reading about medicine for character lore flavor? Absolutely.
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October 27th 2025
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