Tag: outlining a novel

• This Is Madness, or: Julie’s Outline Process of DOOM

  I’m currently preparing to write my third novel, and as I go I find myself marveling at the madness of the process. I don’t know what it looks like when other writers set out to develop a book idea or draft an initial outline, but for me it’s a bit like watching a star form […]

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  Julie Israel

  17 February, 2014

  Books, Humor, Inspiration, Writing

  first outline, metaphor for beginning to write a book, outlining a novel, writers

• Forum Friday: How Do You Outline?

  Unless you are a prodigy, a diehard pantser, or some combination thereof, an outline is an absolutely essential blueprint for writing a novel. An outline allows us to chart events, organize them, rearrange, cut, add, develop characters and motivations along the way. It’s kind of a like a scale model of an elaborate mansion or […]

  Julie Israel

  9 August, 2013

  Books, Reading, Writing

  fiction, Forum Friday, novel outline methods, outline, outlining a novel, writers