You’re a pantser, not a plotter–you like to wing it when you write, just let the ideas flow freely. This can be liberating, but sometimes in the course of writing the first draft, we realize our manuscript has gone way off track and is no longer fun to write.
At this point, we must go back and find the point where the story stops working. We cut everything back to there and make an outline to build some structure into the manuscript.
Let’s say we are working on a manuscript titled “Dog Days of Summer.” We wrote most of it during November and are sixty thousand words in, but we aren’t even a third of the way to the finish. When we look back, the first twenty thousand words are exactly what we wanted the story to be. But at that point we became a little desperate to get our…
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Thank you Chris ♥ You made my day 🙂
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Welcome, Connie 🤗❤️🤗
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