I totally get it. In super early drafts, I imagined my characters Nick and Robin ending up together. That idea died in rewrites of part 1. They are brother and sister 100%. If they "end up together" in the end, it's most likely going to be as siblings/roommates.
I will agree that a lot of things I do are unplanned. Pretty much each book I start happened when I sat down to write something, anything. I even add in characters or plot points on the fly.
But I tend to plan out after a while. I guess it's what helps me stay focused. Although, I don't always use what I write out. I'm flexible. If it doesn't fit when I get there, I toss it and come up with something new.
Like my newest series, which I'm hoping can be published with Tapas soon (not currently available on my profile, basically), is also like that. I plan out my chapters, like the main feel or important scenes I want, but it may or may not change when I sit down to look at that part of the story.
I have the opposite problem. In my collabs that I use for practice, my pirate-captain keeps flirting with another main character that's supposed to have an unrequited crush on her. Instead HE'S the one going tsundere on her and she's just laughing about it.
I find script writing both easier and more complicated lol. (you mean comic scripts, right?? or, movie scripts?) Because in novel writing I tend to make plots more intricate, while a comic is able to show a reader more instead of having to explain everything like you would for a book.
Yet, I find myself planning out the plot even MORE for a comic. Lolololol. Like, you can convey more in shorter amount of time, but it has to be more perfect too, so the scenes don't confuse people.
Yeah, I agree. I'm way more interested in character driver stories, rather than plot based. Mostly because when I myself am reading, I don't care as much about what's going on as I do about how it's affecting the characters or what they're thinking about it.
When books get too plotty I actually tend to skim past the boring parts a bit xD
Oh I can tell she's gonna Dom the hell out of him but I have no control over when and that's becoming very clear.
I've written plays, most of my work has been audio drama, done a little film and tv, no comics) If I'm writing for hire from someone else's outline I can do that or their general idea, I can do that too. But usually I pants all the way.
There really isn't a wrong way to write.
The way that works for you is the right way. I'll keep reference notes so I don't screw up later and not resolve something, but that's not a plan or an outline. On the other hand, my all time favorite short story is The Lady or the Tiger. I love ambiguous endings.
Yeah, of course. It's whatever works best for a person at the time. I've worked with Tapas for almost four years now, and I'm pretty sure I approached each book I wrote differently. Even my newest one is being done different than the rest of my stuff.
Not sure if the story is what needs the change, or if it's because I've changed as a writer over the years xD
I generally pants my way through a short(ish) (ok not short at all) draft novel that I bash into shape with a sledge hammer and a lot of merciless cutting afterwards and then call that a rough script for my comic (and then try really hard not to ignore it when I get hit with a new better sparkly idea). As for that draft novel it tends to be done in a sorta roleplay kinda way (I have been known to rp them with friends to get things down). It's more there's characters and this is the world and here's an inciting incident or goal, figure out the rest in the process.
My issue with plot-driven stories is that they get too predictable. I can't count the number of romantic dramas where about 3/4 of the way through the storyline the female MC gets kidnapped and the male MC comes to rescue her and their big resolution of issues happens in a hospital room. I can see this coming every time. This is also why, no matter your writing style, you should let the story develop naturally. Yes, you may have to rework your plot but knowing when to hop on the freeway to Story Town and when to take the scene routes to Story Town is INCREDIBLY important.
it's an rp, so sometimes we just get a premise and go with that, other times we have a premise and a goal and try to do with that.
adapting it into a comic, i have the chance to go back and alter things to better foreshadow later plot points, which by the nature of RP, are all pantsed. 
i don't even know how it's going to end, because we're still RPing stuff! But the nice thing about revisiting earlier plot points is that we're reminded of old details that we can go back and revisit. (like edwin's partially broken nose...)
I am like those characters in the movies who say "Follow me, I have a genius plan!" and answer with "We'll just see how it is later" when confronted on what it actually is.
For the art analogy I just have a rough sketch and color reference, where I will line art and color and draw the background at the same time.
I don't mind predictable stuff, as long as it's cute or funny. LOL, a sucker for cheesy rom-coms and the like. But don't get me wrong, I do enjoy a good fantasy novel with depth and such. Just not what I reach for most times.
I prefer simple plots with a simple end. Not too much backstory, not too much narration. Just the characters showing me what's going on in the story until it's completed.
That's how I prefer to write as well.
Same, quality is everything. The entire story could center around any lazy Tuesday afternoon and still be enjoyable with solid characters.
My novel is about characters telling the stories of their lives, and it was very important to me that I get the order right. start with the two characters that bicker constantly, get some conflict and fun insults going. Then move on to the character who doesn't have a rival or a best friend but gets backlash from everyone. Then the character who's really close to the character that gives the big stinger finishing act.
When I plan a story, I start off winging it! 
But... as the story gets longer and the world I built gets more complicated, I start writing things down. Lol. First, I just jot down all my ideas, or anything I want to do in the story. Sometimes I do this on paper, and sometimes I do it in my OneNote. Later, I go back and figure out where I want that to happen in the story, and then kind of wing the in-between bits so I can get to the scene I wanted. lol.
Sometimes, I throw in a sketch. Or if I'm working in my OneNote, I find images that serve as inspirations for looks, settings, and characters. I'm very visual. So, while I'm not the greatest artist, I can use the heck out of google search.
I had a general idea of what I wanted for Fox Fire's beginning and ending, but not all of the stuff in between. I spent months writing on outline which actually started out as a typical male-female supernatural romance. Eventually, I felt people wouldn't read it since I wasn't feeling it myself, so I changed it to a BL. The bad guy who was supposed to be just the bad guy became part of the main pair 
You could say I had to spend a lot of extra time changing the plot and character backgrounds.
When I started writing, I wrote it meticulously by the outline until around chapter 35. Sometimes I'd get an idea while eating, showering, driving, etc., and I wanted to put it into the novel. After that, I've sorta been writing on the spot (currently at chapter 56). Some major reveals occurred sooner than I thought, so I've been adjusting some parts/ending in my Word outline (which is like, 60 pages btw! There's something so satisfying about seeing the whole story summary in a single document). Now, I'm trying to get out of that 'writing on the spot, unplanned' mode, and circle back to the outline.
I agree with the little ideas and putting them somewhere for later! They occasionally come to me in the most random times. I type them at the very top of my outline summary in bullet points (or in my phone if I'm out somewhere). I also use that section for reminders and helpful reference websites.
I've scripted 90% of the first 'book' for Blue Star Rebellion, and I have some broad-strokes ideas of what the plots of Book 2 and Book 3 will deal with. I also know what the final, ending scene will be. But beyond Chapter 3, I have no idea how I'm getting to that ending scene, haha. It's so far off in the future that it doesn't matter yet, each book will probably take me about a year to make.
So I'd say I'm halfway between a pantser and a plotter, writing-wise. I wouldn't start drawing a page unless I had the script complete for about the next ten pages because I'm attentive to pacing and so-on, but nor am I willing to wait until the whole story is 100% complete before I start, or I'd never start. 
As for planning a page... I visualise the scene in my head over and over, like an animation, then start mentally picking through that for the most important moments to convey action, emotion, characterisation, humour and so on. I then start visualising those as still images, and mentally assemble them together into what kind of panels would work best for them. (This is all mental, I'm not drawing anything yet!)
When I do start laying out a page, I'll lay down a panel arrangement I think will work then start scribbling VERY roughly what's happening in each panel. (With the page I'm working on now, I just wrote words in them to start with!) Sometimes the layout works the first time; sometimes it doesn't, and I'll keep trying different layouts until I stumble upon the one which will work. I don't start sketching neatly until I know where everything is going and where the dialogue will fit.
It's weird when I think about it, that so much of my comics process is pure visualisation rather than pencil-on-iPad, but it's what works for me! It also means that a substantial chunk of my creative process can be done literally anywhere. It's nice that for me, 'relaxing in the bath' can be an enormously productive thing to do!
