How do you trick your mind into thinking you’re a free-as-a-bird “pantser” when you are really a dyed-in-the-wool “plotter”?

Writing a Cozy Mystery by the seat of your pants (i.e. no or precious little plot outline) sounds like such a rush. I’d love to wear the “pantser” team colors and trot onto the field for the first time.

Unfortunately, I was born with “plotter” pinstripes. I plot EVERYTHING.

The “plantser” compromise seems so, well, compromising.

But is this my only choice?

Until tomorrow…

Chloe