Write On SC

What’s Your Writing Style

Episode Summary

On January 15, 2022, Kasie and Rex revisited the age-old Planner vs. Pantser debate with this diagnostic episode including best practices and tools for all writing styles.

Episode Notes

Full show notes out on the blog here.

Today’s session is a good “beginning of the year” session, I think, because it can be part of your 2022 writing plan. We briefly touched on some writing goals we have and we’ve done entire episodes on setting, measuring, and keeping writing goals. So today’s exploration of the various writer types and what your type means for your writing habit should come in handy.

Take an actual quiz here.

Let’s start with the three levels:

Lawful – this means you stick to this type no matter the project, it’s ingrained in you and difficult to change out of
Neutral – this is conditional; so if you’re mostly this, but sometimes that, you’re in this category
Chaotic – according to whim, day of the week, or color of the M&M you just drew from the package