outlining
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Should you outline your project?
The short answer is yes. But I understand your hesitation. For years I resisted outlining, preferring my stories evolve organically. And this worked for me… kinda. Really interesting twists would show up, characters were able to define themselves on the pages and I wasn’t trying to force anything to conform to a preconceived idea. But Read more
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The writing zone
Friday night I had an idea. It started out as a spark, a character, a situation and it rapidly spread into a fire, a plot, subplots, background, twists, heartbreaks, climax and resolution. I wrote the first chapter and then I sat outside for fifteen minutes, staring into space. If anyone had come across me at Read more
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Leave yourself a trail of bread crumbs
I like big flapping loose ends that end up tying the whole story together in a surprising way. And the most effective way to do this is to surprise myself. Read more
LC W. Allingham 