Pantser or plotter?
About the time I think I’ve decided I’m one, I morph into the other. The first book I wrote, I meticulously plotted every scene. I had a timeline drawn out and knew exactly where the story was going. At least I thought I did. Funny thing. The characters started to talk to me.
Now before you start to think I’m schizophrenic, let me explain. My characters develop personalities so strong, they often tell me when I write them “wrong.” This character intervention started with that very first book. I would no sooner write a couple hundred words of a scene, and one of them would shout, “No! That’s not what I would do! I would…” And he/she would proceed to tell me where I needed to steer the scene. And these characters were brilliant. They led me down roads I never would have considered and those interruptions of the meticulous plotting I’d done made the stories more rich and more emotional.
When I joined the Critters, I found out I didn’t have to plot. They gave me permission to just… write. To let the story steer me instead of vice-versa. And I’ve never looked back. At least until now.
The Amazon series is more complicated than a normal romance. This world-building stuff ain’t easy. 
Now that the “rules” are in place with the first book, I need to think about how those rules play out in the lives of the other three Amazons and their heroes. I’m ambitiously making the other three stories share some common threads, and keeping track of those details have proven to be a challenge. The pantser in me wants to just pound the keyboard, but the logical plotter is holding me back as I work on the major plot points. I’ve spent more time plotting the second book than any other project I’ve worked on. My biggest fear is that I’ll lose the richness and the spontaniety pantsing has given me. One the other hand, the plot has to be logical.
Maybe I can ultimately meld my pantser and plotter into one really good author.