Pre-Nano Work: Outline
October 15th 2008 02:04
I haven't actually gotten this far because I'm way behind. (That said, I have pages upon pages of world notes and I have most of my character sheets done.)
But here is an outlining exercise...
Take a piece of blank paper and draw a square near the edge of the paper; this is your border. Write at the top 'Outline' and the title of your story/novel.
Now put all the major events as dot-jot notes basically, giving brief ideas of everything that absolutely must happen.
Make a separate list of things you think would be cool, but which aren't necessary.
Based off of your events that you need and the ones you want, figure out how you're going to have to pace it in storytime in order to get as much as possible in the novel.
You can go further with this, but personally I prefer very basic outlines. As long as I know what order the events need to go in I'm fine. It makes it more fun to write, discovering things as I go.
But here is an outlining exercise...
Take a piece of blank paper and draw a square near the edge of the paper; this is your border. Write at the top 'Outline' and the title of your story/novel.
Now put all the major events as dot-jot notes basically, giving brief ideas of everything that absolutely must happen.
Make a separate list of things you think would be cool, but which aren't necessary.
Based off of your events that you need and the ones you want, figure out how you're going to have to pace it in storytime in order to get as much as possible in the novel.
You can go further with this, but personally I prefer very basic outlines. As long as I know what order the events need to go in I'm fine. It makes it more fun to write, discovering things as I go.
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