Not so scared

After a long Friday and an even longer Saturday, I had a pretty good writing day on Sunday. Even through all the Olympic distractions I was able to type over twenty-two hundred words on my prairie story. That after only coming up with a little over one hundred a few days before.

Something I've discovered over the last few days is that my current story isn't as plot driven as I'd thought but rather character driven. This is quite the change for me as I tend to write with my plot in focus.

I have to say I'm kind of excited about this change.

Plot-driven- characters are driven by the plot

Character driven- plot is driven by the characters

An excellent example of character driven stories are Vannetta Chapman's Shipshewana Amish Mysteries.

Here is a great article on the two-Character-Driven or Action-Driven?

So, since I've realized, okay accepted, that this story doesn't want to follow all my little plotting cards I'm not so scared of writing it.

Are you a character driven or plot driven writer?