October Novel Prep Challenge

Also, "to fly by the seat of your pants" came from piloting - not using instruments but just going with your gut. It works well to writing by instinct and feeling out the story as you go, but using your instruments in writing would be an outline of sorts, character profiles, that sort of thing.

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