

A Panster's Guide to the Dreaded Dead End
Writers, we are all often reliably informed, fall broadly into two categories: plotters and pansters. A Plotter agonises over their story well before their fingers touch their computer keys, they make copious notes, keep organised files and character bibles and know exactly what happens in the story as they begin to write it. My good friend and writing partner Liam Livings is a plotter, as you can see here in exhibit A (a small snapshot of the deforestation which occurs befor