
on story crafting
in writing a story, people say you have to have an outline. and characters developed. and a story arc. or you can be a pantser (make it up as you go). others say write scenes and craft your story around them. when editing, pretend you knew the story you were writing to start with. it was all of those things for me. i wrote a story based off a thought. then i edited it until i considered it was worthy of others reading it (it wasn't). so i edited more. changed it into a story