Consider this experiment the end of an arc beginning with An Experiment in Writing – Part 30: What Happens Next? and continuing with An Experiment in Writing – Part 31: Who Haven’t I Written About Lately? (see how I numbered them sequentially? That’s a clue so I can remember them).
“Let the characters do the work” means (to me) the characters often know better what’s suppose to happen in a story than the author does. This isn’t a Plotter v Pantser (is it “s” or “z” in “Pantzser”?) thing, and in this experiment I even name it as a tool to use with bitch chapters, those chapters which you know what’s going on and it’s not coming out as it should.
Yep, still writing this because the technique helped with with Fains I, specifically Chapter 4 – What We Do in the Shadows (which has had four major rewrites so far).
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