Good quote! I was a pantser right up into four years ago when I realized the story from the year before wasn't going to let me go and all the character were telling me they had to have their own novel.

They are very patient as that I am still working on the first one. You can't pants your way through something as complicated and twisted as this is. You just can't. Yet at the same time I do. I can see about three chapters in right now. I have an idea of how it needs to start. I am still working on world building. This is going to be my first story that even comes close to being distopian. The changing of one of the external conflicts, is going to simplify a lot of things. And I may still use that idea in a later book but the first one should set the stage for the true battles. Science v/s Religion... Gun lovers against anti-guns, and Maurelle and Ohanzee against Tenyane and her friends for her thrown. The last one is the real conflict and returning Tenyane back to her world is the goal but...

See I was about to say something that shouldn't happen till book three at least. I have these ideas about the characters and I know major points in their lives and how it will happen. What I don't know is what happens between point A and point 20. Yes, I said it that way on purpose.

I do love that quote though.