The Power of the Outline

I tend to be half pantser/ half plotter. I usually do a sketchy outline--more a road map, with a few places of interest highlighted, rather than a detailed itinerary.

For the last few days I've been circling the drain on the most recent scene in the wip. Kinda knew where I was going with it, but never quite getting there as I tweaked and fleshed out what I'd written already. Then I decided to write a mini outline of what happens next in the scene so I could just finally get past it.

Turns out not much. :-D I just need to wrap up the current bit of discussion between the heroine and her mentor. The hero wasn't going to show up in this scene but the next. No wonder I was spinning my wheels on this scene, subconsciously I knew it was done, just hadn't fully tweaked to it.

(Holy mack, this makes two blog posts in less than a week. What the!? lol. Well, I like my blog, but obviously seriously been neglecting it. It's easier for me to bang something out in the morning--like I've done with the last two posts--than when I come home from work. Also, sometimes I want to say more 140 characters can do justice to.)