{"id":806,"date":"2026-05-27T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/?post_type=mec-events&p=806"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:35:40","slug":"pantser-or-planner-approaches-to-plotting-your-novel","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/events\/pantser-or-planner-approaches-to-plotting-your-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantser or Planner? Approaches to Plotting Your Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Register here<\/a> to join our CAA BC Chapter as Gail Anderson-Dargatz discusses the different methods of plotting your novel. Are you a Pantser or a Planner? Does one way have advantages over the other?<\/p>\n

\"\"GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ\u2019s first novel,\u00a0The Cure for Death by Lightning,<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the\u00a0Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK\u2019s Betty Trask Award, the BC Book Prize for Fiction, and the Vancity Book Prize. Her second novel,\u00a0A Recipe for Bees<\/em>, was\u00a0nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and was a finalist for the Giller Prize.\u00a0The Spawning Grounds<\/em>\u00a0was nominated for the Sunburst Award and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award and shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Literary Award for fiction.<\/p>\n

She is the author of the thrillers\u00a0The Almost Wife<\/em>, a Canadian bestseller, and\u00a0The Almost<\/em> Widow<\/em>, a national bestseller and shortlisted for the 2024 Crime Writers of Canada Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel set in Canada. Her latest novel,\u00a0The Atlas Keeper<\/em>, will be released August 25, 2026.<\/p>\n

Gail taught for nearly a decade within the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and now works as a writing coach and developmental editor. She lives in the Shuswap region of British Columbia.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.gailanderson-dargatz.ca\/cms\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Register here to join our CAA BC Chapter as Gail Anderson-Dargatz discusses the different methods of plotting your novel. Are you a Pantser or a Planner? Does one way have advantages over the other? GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ\u2019s first novel,\u00a0The Cure for Death by Lightning,\u00a0was a finalist for the\u00a0Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the UK\u2019s Betty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"mec_speaker":[],"class_list":["post-806","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/bc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}