102: Neap Tides – Plotting vs. Pantsing

Are you an outliner or a wild freewriter with chaos in your veins? The Cru rehashes the age-old debate of plotting vs. pantsing: when to plan, when to surprise yourself, and how to keep from spiraling into a 30,000-word digression about the moon. Around the 15:30 mark we read stories for Neap Tides, a prompt that gave us oceanic drama, rising tension, and one very soggy metaphor. Neap Tides. Those tides which attain the least rise and fall at or near the first and last quarters of the moon. The high water rises little more than half as high above the mean level as it does at SPRING TIDES, and the low water sinks about half as little below it. Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.