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Like all rules, this can be broken if the end result is what you want. Some people are "discovery writers" (aka "pants writers"). They just sit down to write, and watch the story unfold as if they...
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2019-12-13T12:00:09Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T02:21:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/5627 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
Like all rules, this can be broken if the end result is what you want. Some people are "discovery writers" (aka "pants writers"). They just sit down to write, and watch the story unfold as if they were watching TV. Some people have to have everything structured and sketched out before they begin. There's no wrong way to do it. If you get to the end, decide you like it, and then rework the rest to fit the end, congratulations: you did it right. If you get to the end, decide you hate it, and change it, congratulations: you did it right. As long as the finished, edited story works so that all the pieces throughout point to the end, or don't, _as you intend_, it doesn't matter how you arrived at the end, or any piece in between, on any draft.
#1: Imported from external source
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2012-05-08T11:26:29Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 9