Check out this great post from A Writer’s Path blog on sharpening your focus: Why it’s important to outline from a reformed pantser.
Remember the smell of a freshly sharpened pencil? Ground and shaped to a fine tip, it was the only way to color in those little bubbles on placement tests. Its marks on the page were dark and clear, easy to read. Though I’m dating myself, I have a point (pun intended).
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[…] https://dsm-publications.com/2018/06/08/sharpening-your-focus-why-its-important-to-outline-from-a-re… “I am a reformed pantser. In other words, for most of my writing life, I wrote by the seat of my pants letting characters dictate the story and without a plan in place have a number of stories half finished. I’ve been working on a story for three years. It’s just a romance set against the backdrop of magical realism. But, I’m stalled. And so it sits gathering proverbial dust.” […]
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