Take Off Your Pants!

This book provides a useful framework for those who want to structure their stories before plunging in to the writing part. Even for "pantsers" like myself, reading books like this and other framework-providing references can help informally develop a concept before or while writing the first draft.

As a "pantser", I will spend weeks trying to put an outline together after the fact. Libbie Hawker's book, Take Off Your Pants!, teaches how one can create a loose-enough trellis for even a pantser's writing style to hold to a clean story structure.

I'm delighted to have it as part of my writing reference library. It looks great on Kobo!