BookishBrunette

BookishBrunette asked S.D. Smith:

Hi! I have recently heard some authors say that you must plan a book before writing it. They mentioned outlining and all sorts of planning ahead. But when I sit down to write, I find that I don't have the whole story planned or the characters polished. I don't have the patience, paper, or genius. Did you do any outlining or had planned it out all the way before you wrote the series? What would you recommend?

S.D. Smith Every writer is somewhere on the continuum of an outliner or a discovery writer. (Lots of names for that: pansters and planners, architects and gardeners.)

I'm somewhere in the middle, I guess. I never outline, really, but I writer down beats ahead of time and defo write (and rewrite) toward an ending.

Figure out what works for you and writer. The writing part is the part that is rare. Do that and you zoom into a small group.

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