Lore & LilacPlotters, pantsers and the revision in between
However you get to the end of a first draft, the work that follows looks remarkably similar.
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Related glossary terms
- OutlineA plan of a story's events, scenes or chapters written before or during drafting, ranging from a few lines to a detailed scene list.
- Discovery writingDrafting without a detailed plan and finding the story's shape through the act of writing it, sometimes called pantsing.
- Reverse outlineAn outline made after drafting that records what each scene actually contains, so you can see the book's real structure.
- Inciting incidentThe event that disturbs the protagonist's ordinary life and sets the main story in motion, forcing a response they can't easily ignore.
- Turning pointA moment that changes the direction of a story or scene, reversing a character's situation, plans or understanding.
- RevisionThe process of re-seeing and reworking a draft, from structure, scene order and character arcs down to the sentences themselves.