Mary Robinette Kowal says:
I know a lot of you are getting ready to begin NaNoWriMo. I’ve mentioned before that I wrote Shades of Milk and Honey for
it. I’ve also mentioned before that I had planned a completely
different ending for the novel. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Since this was the
first time I’d written to an outline, I stuck with it through the end
of November, even though I had a sense that I wanted the novel to be
doing different things.
At the end of the month, I read my 50k words, thought “Yep” and tossed 20k to get back to the point where I was still excited. In subsequant years, I go ahead and revise the outline and count those words towards my overall total. The moral of the story is that if your outline isn’t pleasing you, change the outline.
Edited to add: Bear in mind that this was my first outline for a novel. When writing now, my outlines are longer and, at times, more detailed.
Go here to see the outline. Maybe it will help you with your nanowrimo. Maybe it will help you with your own outline.
She shared another outline the following day, if you want to keep digging on her site.
At the end of the month, I read my 50k words, thought “Yep” and tossed 20k to get back to the point where I was still excited. In subsequant years, I go ahead and revise the outline and count those words towards my overall total. The moral of the story is that if your outline isn’t pleasing you, change the outline.
Edited to add: Bear in mind that this was my first outline for a novel. When writing now, my outlines are longer and, at times, more detailed.
Go here to see the outline. Maybe it will help you with your nanowrimo. Maybe it will help you with your own outline.
She shared another outline the following day, if you want to keep digging on her site.
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