Most writers think of outlines as a way to get their stories started. If you’re an outliner, it helps keep you on track with your story while writing. Sometimes that outline gets changed along the way, but you keep it with you either virtually (through Word files or within Scrivener) or on your very own cork board to remind you to stay focused. However, outlines can serve as an editing tool as well. If you’ve finished your work to have a first draft in hand, then one of the things you can do is to go back with “editing” eyes, and create your outline after it’s finished. How did you organize your story? Where did you give information as you’re world building? Where…
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So back in June, I joined the off-shoot program JuNoWriMo to try and finish my first manuscript. Did I finish? No. But I learned a lot about my own style of writing, and I got a really great novel idea out of it. The original National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is coming up in November. Many of my writing friends are joining the fun. Writing a novel in one month sounds impossible. What are the best parts of NaNoWriMo that makes it such a huge presence in the writing community? I can only speak from my experience with JuNoWriMo, but I can say that there’s a huge sense of community. When I first started this blog, I wrote about feeling the need to connect…
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