I didn't even know that "pants" was a verb before coming to this forum.
I also didn't know that any other writers wrote without plotting/outlining before starting. A certain teach yourself type of book made me feel like a total freak for years. (I ignored the book and all teach yourself books after that because I'd always written without an outline and done okay, and the issues with my early novels would not have been fixed by outlining them first*).
*the first novel had no paragraphs at all, for example. 7 exercise books full of text with not one single paragraph break. Which of course was just scratching the surface of what was wrong with it.
Anyway, it's kind of nice to know that I'm not alone and that the teach yourself book really was full of crap and that trusting my instincts was the right thing to do.
I also didn't know that any other writers wrote without plotting/outlining before starting. A certain teach yourself type of book made me feel like a total freak for years. (I ignored the book and all teach yourself books after that because I'd always written without an outline and done okay, and the issues with my early novels would not have been fixed by outlining them first*).
*the first novel had no paragraphs at all, for example. 7 exercise books full of text with not one single paragraph break. Which of course was just scratching the surface of what was wrong with it.
Anyway, it's kind of nice to know that I'm not alone and that the teach yourself book really was full of crap and that trusting my instincts was the right thing to do.