I think it was here on HN many years ago someone mentioned they "plan the mountains, pants the valleys", which I think beautifully encapsulates the process (at

I think it was here on HN many years ago someone mentioned they "plan the mountains, pants the valleys", which I think beautifully encapsulates the process (at least very similar to how I do it). I'm primarly a pantser, but I have some basic skeleton framework of a plot. And I usually don't have any idea how A will connect to B and then to C until I'm in the moment writing.