I learned a new thing and I’m so excited I just had to share
it with my imaginary friends!
So I was procrastinating on rewriting the ending to Queen of Broken Hearts by listening to
the Writing Excuses podcasts (I don’t think I use these podcasts as intended)
when they said something absolutely genius in the outlining podcast. See, they
were talking about Mary’s method of outlining and how she expands from a
thumbnail sketch and sees the outline as a sort of under painting, and I was
all, hmm, that’s interesting. She mentioned that she ends up with at least a
sentence about each scene, and I was
all, oh, I do that too! But THEN she said the genius part. She writes the novel
ON TOP OF the outline.
My brain exploded. I was all, what. But that makes so much
SENSE. Admittedly, this probably never occurred to me because I tend to write
my outlines in notebooks then reference them as I type the story. But I did my
last outline on virtual notecards, and I had to keep switching back and forth
to reference what I would need to write next.
Writing on top of the outline would not only solve that
problem, it would solve the problem of forgetting my outline notebook somewhere
and having no idea what happens next (this usually leads to writing with
reckless abandon and creating big plot snarls when I finally have my notebook
again).
So I’m implementing this method for writing Junk Squad. Honestly, I’ve been debating
the best way to go about Junk Squad
for a while, and this seems brilliant. If it works I can totes also use it for
my Seven Deadly Sisters novellas. I’m
so excited!
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