![]() ![]() The thing with the outline is you can do it any way you want. So far from being a ‘straightjacket’ or ‘killing creativity’, it actively ADDS to it. This means writers can see what works and what doesn’t, tweaking and refining. Outlines allow you to explore stuff like tropes, genre conventions, storyworld and other thematic elements upfront. Far better to write the wrong stuff in an outline than write many thousands of words you then have to cut altogether or pick apart. Writing is hard, which means we can end up writing ‘the wrong stuff’ (whatever that means). Lots of writers end up blocked and frustrated when drafting without an outline. ![]() If you use an outline, you’re much more likely to finish your novel in months (sometimes weeks!), than years. They may even go so far as to claim an outline is a ‘straightjacket’ and that writers who use them are ‘less interesting’. Writers who don’t outline are often very loud online. ![]()
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