What used to be a nice informative post but is now just what is left after the internet ate my good post

Let's try this again...

I just typed up a wonderful little piece on plotting vs. pantsing and where I belonged on the spectrum.  Unfortunately now it is lost in the ether.  I don't feel like typing the whole thing again, so let's suffice it to say that I am somewhere in the middle, maybe more toward the pantsing side.  If I plot too much, I lose it.  It's like letting the air out of a balloon.  The more of the story I release while I plot, the less of the story is inside of me.   There are some things I do need to plan ahead of time however, which basically comes with the territory of writing science fiction.  World-building, the whens and whats and hows.  What do people eat/wear/live in/travel in.  Where is my story and why and when?  What happened to make the world like that?

Right now I am in chapter 3 of AN/SAR (All Natural/Some Assembly Required).  Right at the point where I can see what's working and what's not, and what just NEEDS more work.  I've found some little stuff that needs to be changed, but so far it's not a big deal.

Back to work...