Jul - 10th

Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 2 and Plan Deviations

Posted at 1:01 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction

I mentioned yesterday that I wouldn’t be following the Book in a Month plan exactly as it’s laid out in the book, so today I’m going to talk a bit about how I’m altering that plan to meet my needs for these 30 days, and more specifically how that will affect my use of “scene [...]

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Jul - 9th

Three Weeks - Novel Outline - Day 1

Posted at 6:20 pm | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction

Today I began work on my second novel outline of the summer - for a humorous piece I’m calling Three Weeks.
When I detailed my progress on the previous novel outline (which I’ll finish cleaning up on Saturday), I didn’t give many details about the actual story. I’ll still be somewhat vague here (not so much [...]

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Jul - 8th

Moving on to a New Novel Outline

Posted at 12:45 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, My Projects, Writing Fiction

I’m happy to say that tomorrow (technically later today at this hour), I should be finished up with writing the outline for the novel I’m referring to here only as Sarah. I still have four days left of my 30-day plan to clean that outline up, fill in any holes, etc., so it’s not quite [...]

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Jul - 7th

Keeping Track of Subplots While Outlining a Novel

Posted at 7:31 am | Filed Under Book Outlining, Writing Fiction

I’m nearly finished outlining a novel (this will be the second completed novel outline with a third starting in a few weeks). The first novel was outlined using The Marshall Plan. The current novel outline is being put together using the plan from First Draft in 30 Days. (The next will be outlined using the [...]

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