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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Breaking things down to manageable chucks is standard large project management. There is no way the "snowflake" method is inherently bad. OTOH, a pantser just isn't going to want to pin down that much of their plot.
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The snowflake method is good if you have a decent understanding of story structure and how the writing process works- smoking included if you're one of those folks who smokes while writing. The problem is when you try to force it onto kids who have no idea of structure or the writing process, and get lots of wonderful spaghetti tree drawings but not one coherent paper.
After all, its too much to ask the elementary and middle school teachers to cover even basic writing. Might stifle the kids' imaginations or something like that. [/sarcasm]