Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Difference between revisions

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Some authors plan meticulously. Before they even start to write, they have a detailed plot synopsis, character biographies, pages on setting, and a detailed backstory to the main tale... at the least.

 

Please only add examples where the author ''admitted'' to doing this. This is not a page for speculation.

 

 

* Writer Tsugumi Oba admitted that this was pretty much the way he wrote ''[[Death Note]]'': he'd write Light into a massive jam at the end of one chapter, and would then try and figure out how to get him out of it only when time came to write the next one.

* Osamu Tezuka wrote ''Ambassador Atom'' (the prototype for ''[[Astro Boy]]'') as he went along. Notably, he had no idea who "Atom" would be, until he later decided to write him as a robot built to replace Tenma's deceased son. He would later [[Retool]] Atom into his current incarnation, and subsequently redid the story as an episode of ''Astro Boy''.

 

 

* The original writers of ''[[The Flash|Impulse]]'' admitted they were writing by the seat of their pants in the first trade. Given the character, this is quite appropriate.

 

* In the original KTMA season of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], the riffs were improvised rather than written. The films being mocked hadn't even been seen in their entirety in advance. In the [[Comedy Central]] era, however, each film was carefully screened and written for before its respective episode was recorded. The show became [[Growing the Beard|better for it]].

** Especially irritating when every episode began with the statement "... and they have a plan." In fairness, this tagline was apparently [[Executive Meddling|inserted by the executives.]]

** Many viewers found this especially apparent in the plot points involving the identity of the Final Five cylons, leading to images like [https://web.archive.org/web/20130612152438/http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/9/2/6/125926_v1.jpg this one]