Before I chase the white rabbit into its hole, I go prepared with index cards, a notebook, a recorder, and a bevy of colored pens.įortunately, my 21st century backpack is an iPad that has all of these things to keep me focused and safe on my journey. I will confess that my inner muse floats between dimensions, existing somewhere between the realms of the pantser and the plotter. The process doesn’t always go as planned, but when it does, it can have a beautiful ending. Then I remind myself that creation is like birth, messy, sometimes violent. I sometimes envy writers who can follow the rule of order, designing a cosmos deliberately devised with outlines, character spreadsheets, and rules of prose engagement. For the dedicated pantser the call to action is often a chaotic sprint into the creative burrow, chasing an elusive white rabbit. “Resistance is futile,” proclaim the Borg of Star Trek.
Website | Goodreads | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram If she’s not grading an endless pile of flash fiction from students, Patricia runs a Dungeons & Dragons club at her high school to promote the next generation of players, writes fanfiction for her favorite Japanese anime, Psycho Pass, and rides show horses in hunter/jumper competition. Her favorite pastimes being Witcher III, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect. Her best known works are Black Sands of Socorro, a smugglers’ sourcebook about people of color for Star Wars: The Role-Playing Game, and The Final Exit, a short story about a dark Jedi’s redemption. She has also published a number of short stories in the Star Wars Universe for the WestEnd Games quarterly Star Wars Adventure Journal.
Her debut novel, Forging A Nightmare, an urban fantasy, is due out November 2021 from Angry Robot Books. Jackson is a high school Language Arts teacher in Pennsylvania.
Jackson shares how she follows her pantser heart.
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