Outlining....

[j_cheney]

....is not fun.

Comments

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

That's why I don't do it. ;)

[kara-gnome.livejournal.com]

Aww, but once you get going, I bet it will go great after all :).

I'm with Melissa, though, in that I don't do it. I should, but don't seem to have the knack for it.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be doing that this weekend...

[dotar-sojat.livejournal.com]

Who said anything about fun?

Adventure. Excitment. Bah! A writer craves not these things!

[stinabat.livejournal.com]

hope the outline doesn't kick your butt. much sympathy.

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

outlining is my master

[marshallpayne.livejournal.com]

Actually, I like outlining as it keeps me from too many false starts. Not that I do as much of it as I used to. I tend to just walk around thinking about a story for a while nowadays. But I've never found it a chore--more of a creative mind experiment. Though it does keep me from the difficult task: getting the words right on the page. Nothing annoys me more to find that the words themselves aren't bad, but useless because I didn't conceptualize the story first in my head, and staring at a short list sometimes does just that. :)

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

I suck at outlining--like Melissa, I don't do it. I derail anyway as I develop the characters, so why bother? ;)

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[namelessarchon.livejournal.com]

I never, ever, did an outline... and of course I never finished anything, my brain and characters going everywhere. Finally, right before my son was born, I outlined a book and finished it fast, then did another outline and finished the second book even faster. Now I do nothing without an outline. As a matter of fact I have taken a week to do an extensive outline of my new short story [thanks to you] and it will be less than 10k words.