Writing Tip: Structure, Part Three-Beating It Out

The last two weeks, we resigned ourselves to doing a bit of pre-writing before jumping into a new project, and realized (hopefully) that brainstorming (with friends) and asking all the questions you can about your characters and your world before entering the outlining phase was a grand idea.

Here is the next step. Please keep in mind that this is just my next step. You’re more than welcome to do this differently. But I’ve taught this way to more than a few writers, and they’ve always come out...