Alex
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Scott Sigler:
While you are writing your first draft, you stop and re-write your outline as you are going through?
Scott Sigler
I frequently have to stop and re-outline. You can make the most detailed outline in the world, and odds are you'll miss some things that will pop up during the first draft process. The bigger problem is you outline with an idea of who the characters are, but those characters come to life as you write and sometimes they won't do what you want them to do. For example: "Um, no, Author Person, I will not go into that haunted house where fifteen people have inexplicably been torn to shreds — you made me smarter than that, you see." So, there are things you need a character to do to move a plot forward, then as you write you see the character would not do those things. Time to re-outline!
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