lkpbear.blogg.se - Outline for writing a book

Now let me explain my outlining process to you with a lot of tears and existential crises. Usually done by people who have no idea what they’re doing and eat quite a lot of chocolate brownies in the name of “writing”. WEIRD COUSIN: You do all three of these methods at once.People who pick this one usually hate rules and never wear matching socks. Something will fly out (tears?) and this process is guaranteed to be full of creative freedom. PANSTER: You write what comes to you as it comes.Like go forward three paces and turn left at the blue tree and don’t die if you please. Which is maybe a few paragraphs or a page with a vague direction.

PLANSTER: You write bare-bones outlines.

PLOTTER: You write outlines and plan very meticulously.Usually a method used by control freaks and those pretentious people who like to use words like “meticulously”.

I’ll quickly list a few of the other writer’s life options: No you do not have to outline to be a successful writer. Now obviously there are many ways to go about writing a novel. I have a very hard time explaining what I’m doing. Unfortunately for me, about 99% of my “writing process” is just doing. So in honour of having no idea, I thought I’d write a post on my outlining process. My truest answer is: OUTLINES.Īs soon as I say that, the human (or robot, like I don’t judge) asking me immediately follows up with, “Oh so how do you write an outline?” Um, sorry…I just…sometimes my fingers slip on the keyboard and it’s a bit awkward? Anyway. People constantly ask me how I write so fast and my truest answer is always: DARK MAGIC. If you want to learn how to write a novel outline, then WELL DONE.