How to Embrace Being a Discovery Writer

When you wish you were a plotter but aren’t

Mallika Kamat
The Writing Cooperative
8 min readJul 12, 2021

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I am a pantser: I don’t know how a scene will turn out until I’m writing it. This also makes me a slow writer; I started writing my first book in November 2018 during NaNoWriMo and how I wish I was done already.

It’s taken me a long time to finish the final draft not just because I’m new to…

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MSc in Management. Working on my debut novel. Published in The Ascent, The Writing Cooperative.