When I was younger, I wrote four fiction novels ...

Two unfinished, and two finished. I gradually got better as I went along, and the final one I wrote was, I thought, pretty good. I have re-read it a number of times and enjoy it.

I got better by transitioning from a pantser to a plotter. When I nailed it -- my final book -- was when I had the basic plot, and the characters pantsed their way through that plot. It's tricky, but it happened.

Of course, I didn't know the terms. I just knew that I didn't finish my first two books because I didn't do a complete outline of the plot going in. The characters went around pantsing, until things fell apart.

In response to this post by Baltimore Hokie

Posted: 05/15/2019 at 4:37PM

Here is the definitive analysis on how GoT took a turn for the worse -- Baltimore Hokie 05/15/2019 12:11PM

When I was younger, I wrote four fiction novels ... -- Will Stewart

05/15/2019 4:37PM

Mitch Hedberg: "This guy said here's a picture of me when I was younger" -- DJ Golf 05/15/2019 4:42PM

@lag, this is what I meant yesterday...well-framed discussion ** -- Hokie Bird 94 05/15/2019 12:33PM

I think it's @'lag , space before comma and apostrophe before lag** -- TomTurkey 05/15/2019 1:29PM

Yeah, I didn't see it... -- `lag 05/15/2019 2:00PM

Have to format the @ correctly -- TomTurkey 05/15/2019 2:09PM

Yeah, it really wasn't a tag per se. Just to draw lag's eyes. -- Hokie Bird 94 05/15/2019 3:03PM

Gotcha ** -- TomTurkey 05/15/2019 3:38PM

Reading this Yeah, I agree with this completely. -- `lag 05/15/2019 1:23PM

Tolkien was kind of a pantser, by his own admission -- Baltimore Hokie 05/15/2019 5:41PM

The books certainly had a blocked out narrative... -- `lag 05/15/2019 9:17PM

Halfway through those tweets I gave up. That's TLDR right there. ** -- ArdbegHokie 05/15/2019 12:28PM

This is a good analysis. The tl;dr version: It's a different show from -- hoosnowahokie 05/15/2019 12:27PM

It's turned from a character focused drama with shocking twists to a more -- AbsolutVT03 05/15/2019 2:32PM

When I was younger, I wrote four fiction novels ...

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