Originally Posted by Meredith Miller
I'm very very new to writing but don't remember ever having anything that intuitive in my writing. It's all techniques and alternatives, creating characters and events for a reason. A friend of mine does, though, and he describes himself as being a ghost in the book's setting. He writes, gets surprised, and stubbornly refuses to change anything that actually happened in his first draft, saying "that's not how it happened".
I think each way has its pros and cons. A person who carefully crafts things can appeal to specific readers, do clever things, and can culminate things into one rational end. He can even tie in things better, usually. A more instinctive writers can have some crazy strokes of imagination that turn out great, and often things seem fleshed out because he notices things in the book that are very detailed and would never be woven on purpose.
There's a manga called Bakuman that explains this very well. It's actually about two manga artists, one instinctive and the other (actually a duo) that's much more careful, and how they compete in writing.
So sorry for the wrong post!
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