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This topic is for all those little short-cuts we use here on Hatrack. When someone asks what one of them means, we can refer them to this topic, as long as someone has posted the definition.
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"pantser" is a newly coined (so far as I know) term here on the Hatrack River Writers Workshop forum that means "one who writes 'by the seat of the pants'" as opposed to "one who outlines the story before writing it."
Actually, there are lots of other possibilities in between these two.
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"pantser"...a Google search shows it popping up on a number of writing websites, so I guess the meaning has firmed up...however, it does have two alternate meanings (in English), one of which is the perpetrator of a sick practical joke and the other refers to someone who does something else (details of which might be too raw for posting).
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Thanks, Robert. I suspected there might be something out there like that "something else" definition, which is why I decided it would be good to post a specific definition for how the term is used here.
Maybe writers can co-opt the term and make the writerly meaning stronger than other meanings. We can hope, anyway.
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