Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Apr 14 2010
A plus B plus life demands--outline failure
Every time I try to sit down and do an outline for a story it seems that something gets in the way. I don't mean little things, like having to take out the trash. I mean big things, like friends having surgery. I've never been the world's best at planning out whole outlines for stories anyway and I'm beginning to think that this is life's way of underscoring my natural tendencies. It may be good and that may be bad, but I'm going to start at least one story without an outline. There's such a thing as taking so much care to prepare to begin that one never actually begins.
posted at: 18:19 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Every time I try to sit down and do an outline for a story it seems that something gets in the way. I don't mean little things, like having to take out the trash. I mean big things, like friends having surgery. I've never been the world's best at planning out whole outlines for stories anyway and I'm beginning to think that this is life's way of underscoring my natural tendencies. It may be good and that may be bad, but I'm going to start at least one story without an outline. There's such a thing as taking so much care to prepare to begin that one never actually begins.
posted at: 18:19 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
