While doing all of this I think I've come up with a term for my writing process. I'm an Organic Outliner. I come up with a story idea and then I'll start writing it. That goes for a while until I realize how shallow and weak the story is. Then I'll stop and do some world building and outlining until I'm ready to go back to writing. This spurt of writing goes longer, but it too will eventually grind to a halt and that's when I get out the note cards and break the story down scene by scene. Once I have all the scenes plotted out, I rearrange them and modify them and make sure everything flows well. Then I can get down to actually writing a first draft.
So, see, there's a lot of outlining and planning involved, but I can't really get to know my story, it's characters and the world until I'm writing it. So many awesome things have come up while writing that I could have never thought of while outlining. Most of it is character stuff. I don't get to know them until I have to write as them.
And once that first draft is complete, with Once Upon A Time..... Awesomely Cool Stuff Happens... The End, then I can start the editing process. But we'll save that for another post, *coughbecauseI'mnotreallysurehowthatworksyetcough*.
In the mean time, I have some stuff to share. :)
- Chuck Wendig is kind of a genius and always has awesome writing advice. So here's Ten Stupid Writer Tricks (That Might Actually Work)
- This one is for my fellow writing moms. How Do You Find Time To Write? 6 Tips for Moms (And Everyone Else, Too)
- And even though I talked a lot about outlining today, I know there's a lot of people who just can't do it. So this one is for you, On Writing Despair (Juicebox Mix)
Anyway, where do you fall in the outlining vs. pantsing debate? Leave a comment down below and let's have a conversation!
Happy Wednesday!
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