Day 15: #atozchallenge
I don’t know about you but I’ve read so many articles on outlining versus pansing, my head is spinning. For the most part, I am one of those who write by the seat of their pants. I let the muse and my characters take me where the story needs to go.
Since I’ve been working on my first novel (for a while now), I decided to look at outlining and novel mapping as a way to help me get the book finished and ensure I had all the necessary bits and pieces.
I use Scrivener and it has proven to be an invaluable tool in outlining what I’ve written to date. It is particularly helpful utilizing the custom meta data.
In additional, I started an Excel worksheet that maps out my novel. Columns include Character, scene number, timeline, setting, goal, conflict, action, reaction, stakes raised, and plot…
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For my next project, I am working on a very detailed outline. So far, it seems to be helping (at least, it seems to be keeping me on track, which is a huge part of the battle when it comes to writing for me).
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Great Sarah – Good Luck with it 👍😃
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Some of us are meant to be pantsers. 🙂
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And do it extremely well 👍😃
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I am writing a trilogy and confess that I can get lost in my character names, DOB etc. Helpful tip 🙂
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Good Luck with it Suzanne 👍😃
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Thank you !
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I flew by the seat of my pants for Out of Time, but for the second book in the series, I have started making tables. The most important one for this book, however, will be the dates of birth and how they respond in the twentieth/twenty-first/twelfth centuries. Without that, I will get hopelessly lost.
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That is probably the best thing to do when writing a series of related books Loretta 😀
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I have tried outlining but I guess I am a pansing kind of writer. If I was writing a series, I would probably use Scrivener that I have heard so much about. Great post.
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Each author should write the way they feel most comfortable with Karen – sometimes though, an experimental change of tactic is beneficial 😀
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