Great advice from Jack Eason about keeping planning to a minimum to let your creativity flow. #writerstips #writing
I know I’ve spoken about planning in the past. But like a lot of seriously overused writing crutches, it bears talking about yet again.
So many new and not so new writers insist on planning every single detail in their current work in progress almost to the point of being totally paranoid about it. It’s as if they need an Idiot’s How To Guide to be able to write. It has to be said that following this inflexible method leaves nothing to be desired. Neither does it make you think before you write. Nor does it allow you to make use of your imagination, not to mention being adventurous and therefore spontaneous. Give me research and spontaneity over planning any day.
It’s fine if you are just another hack with no imagination whatsover, ghost writing for a living. But I ask you, where’s the fun in that? Where is the…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
Great article and I am in full agreement. Sometimes you just have to let your Muse guide you.
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Yes this is do true especially if you are writing fantasy. 🙂
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