Did you miss this week's Teen Writers Camp? Don't worry, here is one thing we talked about this week.
There are many different types of writers, and how you write may be very different than how other people write. Here is what George R.R. Martin on two different types of writers:
I
think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The
architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house.
They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof
they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing
there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out
before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a
seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a
fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they
water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out
as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.
George R.R.
Martin
So which are you? Are you an architect who carefully plans a story before your start writing, or are you a gardeners, who kind of knows what you want to write, but works on the story as you write. What could be the benefit or drawbacks of both writing styles?I'll see you you @ the library!
Katie, a gardener with architect tendencies.
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