My Weird Fiction Outlining Technique

Both a Pantser and a Plotter Be?

Anne Marble
6 min readMay 31, 2024

Some writers are “pantsers.” Some are plotters. Yet is it possible to use both processes? Can some writers squish the two processes together? Yes, we can!

A Caveat: Many articles on writing fiction try to tell you that this author’s process is the crown jewel of all writing processes. They insist that their tip works for everyone and that you should ignore all the other writing processes. This is not one of those articles. I don’t know if this process will work for anyone else but for me…

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Anne Marble

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