Slow Down and Outline

My Work in Progress for National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) is sucking!

For my last two novels, I used solid outline templates based on the Fool Proof Outline by Christopher Downing. The questions and spreadsheets he provided gave me a clear trail of where I wanted to go in each scene.

My latest novel, Worlds Apart, I drafted around years ago. I wrote it before I learned a good process for drafting.

And Lawd, writing this sucker is getting hard.

This is a reminder for me to slow down so that I can get deeper into the story and the mindset of the characters by answering the questions in Fool Proof Outline.

My future self will thank me, and the story will be so much richer.