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   Nicky to Brenda   
   Re: Writers' return?   
   13 Sep 14 03:00:21   
   
   From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   > On 9/12/2014 4:50 AM, Nicky wrote:   
   >   
   >    
   > > I agree completely. If I am not hooked and intrigued I can't go on to make   
   up the story. I don't usually have a story idea before I start writing so the   
   first sentence is the spring board to the second. Most of my novels only exist   
   because I found a    
   first sentence which had story stuff in it.   
   >    
    Brenda wrote:   
   > You are clearly a pantser born, just like I am.   
      
   Like lots of people I'm sort of in between. I start without a clue but then I   
   plan. Once I've planned I rarely look at the plan ( I quite often mislay it )   
   and feel free to change it if I come up with a better idea. It's like so many   
   of these divides    
   introvert/extrovert, logical/intuitive, organised/chaotic I hover awkwardly at   
   the boundary not quite one thing or the other : )   
      
       
   > Brenda (has no idea what is going to happen next)   
   Sometimes I write that way too and it is great fun, and then sometimes I   
   don't!    
   >    
   Nicky   
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