To Plot or Not to Plot | The Art & Craft of Writing Creatively

In response to the following post from Terri Giuliano Long, I've always felt I did my best work when either writing in a creative frenzy or writing to discover what I really think. In writing my novel I simply sat down and wrote, sometimes for twelve or more hours at a stretch. I worked without a plot, or even road map. Starting with a guy alone in a car, I thought, what should I have him do? It's a predicament writers of road novels often get themselves into. I thought, he's got to talk to someone, Read more [...]