Are you a "Planner" or a "Do-er"?

What's the difference? Well, I'll tell you that technically, these are terms that I think summarises all writers out there.

Planners
Planners are the kind of writers who like to plan out how the story will go. It may be case that they have a story outline, or they have a start and and end, or scene by scene breakdown  of each chapter. Planners may have a basic outline of their story but they in some way know in which direction their story is going.

Do-ers
Do-ers only have the name of all or some of their characters. They may have a general idea of where their story is ending but they have no idea what's going to happen next. These types of writers prefer to be surprised by what comes next. A woman singing badly out of tune or some crazed idiot demanding to be locked away from the fairies? Who knows? The writer doesn't.

Personally, I am a do-er. Planning a story, to me, sucks the fun out of writing. I like the surprise of not knowing who's going to turn left or right, of not knowing if somebody's going to jump when told or tell the instructor to jump themselves. What I enjoy about writing stories is the mystery of it all. If I planned out every scene, or the general story arc, I wouldn't want to write it because it's already there. I tried that once. The story died horribly in a pit of flaming death.

But the point is that planners make plans to do with plot. Do-ers may make plans about characters, but not usually about plot.

So, which one are you? Are you a Planner? Or are you a Do-er?

Happy Writing