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It's worth mentioning, perhaps, that a lot of writers don't have a plan/outline: Stephen King, for example, who has described in great detail how he works in "O
by bloak 7y ago
It's worth mentioning, perhaps, that a lot of writers don't have a plan/outline: Stephen King, for example, who has described in great detail how he works in "On writing": he starts with a situation and develops it as he writes. In fact, in most cases where I've read about how a writer works there is no plan/outline. However, it was mentioned in court proceedings that Dan Brown had an outline for "The Da Vinci Code", so I don't have sufficient evidence to conclude which approach is most popular. Perhaps it's just those writers who like to write about writing that prefer not to have a plan.
- amayne 7y ago“On Writing” is a wonderful book. If you’re Stephen King, plot and structure run through your veins. If you’re a mortal like the rest of us and “seat of the pants” isn’t working...then outline. Outlining also saves you from having to randomly kill off half your characters in the middle of the book because there’s no way to wind down all their storylines... I’ll also add that anecdotally, my writer friends who outline go through far fewer revisions than those that don’t. If your process works, don’t mess with it.