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Re: [IAG-members] outline/not outline

I wrote both of my published works from the "seat of my pants" as it were. Then a friend sent me Dramatica and I decided to outline. Since then I haven't written a creative word and I know that if I ever write another novel it will be like the first two. The last line will come to me and I'll write my way to it - no outline, no map.
 
I tried putting plans and things on paper and ended up losing what had the potential of being not one but 3 maybe 4 reasonably decent novels. I do not intend to make that mistake again.
Peggy Jay
 
 
"No matter how contemporary you think your novel is, it's all historical fiction by the time it hits amazon.com."


--- On Mon, 7/6/09, ruthsims_author <digests@...> wrote:

From: ruthsims_author <digests@...>
Subject: [IAG-members] outline/not outline
To: IAG-members@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 4:11 PM

I always find discussions about whether to outline very interesting. I'm incapable of it and I wish I could come up with outlines. After I've written the first draft, then I can--sort of--come up with an outline, but I can't do it beforehand. I admire people who can outline and I'm sure it would save me a lot of time in research and do-overs if I could. Is there an Outline Begetting drug I could take? Does anybody else on this list do things backwards (or as my brother used to say back-asswards) the way I do? Or I am the only eccentric in this bunch of bananas?

Ruth
www.ruthsims. com
Mon Jul 6, 2009 10:16 pm

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I always find discussions about whether to outline very interesting. I'm incapable of it and I wish I could come up with outlines. After I've written the first... 		ruthsims_author
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Ruth, there are as many ways to write a novel as there are novels. Probably more. We've all had the experience of sitting there amazed at what we have just...
Kris Jackson
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I wrote both of my published works from the "seat of my pants" as it were. Then a friend sent me Dramatica and I decided to outline. Since then I haven't...
Peggy Ullman Bell
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10:16 pm

To Outline or Not to Outline. NOT, unless you're writing a cook book or a phone directory. Edward C. Patterson...
Edward C. Patterson
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