Catherine asked Jason Parent:

Hi, Jason. I am wondering, do you outline for your novels or are you more of an organic writer?

Jason Parent Hi Catherine - first off, thank you for all your wonderful reviews! They mean mountains to me. :)

To answer your question, I always start with a barebones outline, but I fairly solid start and ending. Endings are important to me, not so much in the action that closes out the work but in the feeling or thought I hope to leave readers with. I hand write first drafts, which become my new outline, pretty much scrapping the old one as the story rewrites itself. When I type it up, the story evolves again. I am a slow typist, so I have plenty of time to think and rethink scenes to try and make them better or rewrite altogether. But my endings rarely change beyond being more fleshed out. I have final chapters for two books already written despite having none of the preceding chapters.

What about you? What's your style?

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