Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Difference between revisions

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== Anime And Manga ==

* 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.

* [[Tite Kubo]], the author of ''[[Bleach]]'', is infamous for using this trope ''and'' for his special use of [[Chandler's Law]]: "When in doubt, introduce a new awesome character". [[Loads and Loads of Characters|He was in doubt very often...]]

** This becomes particularly apparently after the Ichigo-Grimmjow fight. Before then Kubo did a decent enough job that it at least seemed as if he had a plan. After that fight the story became increasingly sloppy, to the point where several characters were just forgotten about and given no resolution. Aizen's "plans" also started making less and less sense.

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* [[DC Comics]] in general, during the [[Silver Age]] of comics, was infamous for using the following writing system: an editor would design a cover with whatever elements he felt would be popular (gorillas, dinosaurs, aliens etc.) or shocking events ([[Super Dickery|death scenes of major characters, betrayals, pranks]] etc.) then he would give the cover to a writer and tell him to ''just come up with a story that made sense out of it.'' The results were often [[Tropes Are Not Bad|not very logical, but still enjoyable in their own way]].

* Compare [[Marvel Comics|"The Marvel Method"]] from the same era: One writer would plot a story, an artist would draw the comic, then another writer would do the dialogue, often having to explain things all by himself. This is why Marvel was able to put about half a dozen or so comics each month even though the stories were devised almost exclusively by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. Marvel used this system as late as the 80's.

* Chester Gould, the creator of ''[[Dick Tracy]],'' made up his stories as he went along. His maxim was that if even ''he'' didn't know where a story was going at the start, then his readers certainly wouldn't be able to guess.

* ''[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'' creator John Wagner has said this is the way he prefers to write. Case in point: the reappearance of {{spoiler|the Dark Judged}} in "Day of Chaos" wasn't originally planned, but with all that was going on in Mega-City One at the time, brining them back was the perfect way to make things even worse.

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* [[Charles de Lint]] writes that way and refers to it an "organic" style of writing.

* [[Terry Pratchett]] usually writes with a plan, but in an interview said that while writing the assassin's "driving test" in ''[[Discworld/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'', he had absolutely no idea how it would unfold, and consequently it is one of his most favorite moments in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series.

** When he sat down to write ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' he intended for [[The Cape|Carrot Ironfounderson]] to be the main character, with [[Knight in Sour Armor|Samuel Vimes]] being a minor character who was there to provide a viewpoint character in the city before Carrot arrived. As he wrote the novel Vimes took over as the main character.

** When he sat down to write ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' he intended for [[The Cape (trope)|Carrot Ironfounderson]] to be the main character, with [[Knight in Sour Armor|Samuel Vimes]] being a minor character who was there to provide a viewpoint character in the city before Carrot arrived. As he wrote the novel Vimes took over as the main character.

* [[Haruki Murakami]] swears to this type of writing, never knowing the ending when he begins a story. [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|It shows]]

* [[Stanislaw Lem]] wrote ''[[Solaris]]'' that way. It is considered to be his best book which is saying something, because his other works are nothing short of brilliance.