Some friends and I were playing an RPG tonight (role-playing game, for those of you that grab your geek creds from elsewhere), and when the GM left the room for a few minutes, the other players and I came up with a brilliant plan to tie up the approximately 5 […]
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In writing, as in life, sometimes things happen that you don't expect. You can draft and draft and draft, and prepare an outline of your novel that has every tiny little bit of plot mapped out to the nth degree, but if you're not willing to toss all that aside, to let things go where they want to go, and let scenes play out as you never imagined they might, then I think you're crippling yourself as a writer.