Yea!! I just finished my outline for Pandora's Box. This is truly a skeleton that needs muscle, tendons, and ligaments to make it come alive. It's also going to need a TON of work. What I have right now is the bare bones - which is basically nothing.
However, I now know where I'm going and what I need to do to get to the end. Dialog, characterization, setting - all this needs to be added, but I don't need to worry about plot because I have a beginning, middle and end.
I read somewhere that this was similar to the way James Patterson works (not that I am by any stretch of the imagination comparing myself to him!). He creates a very detailed outline which runs around 60-70 pages then goes back and fills in the dialog, etc. (And in some cases has other writers do it for him). Using this method, he produces books like a machine. Churning out plots and neat stories before getting to the labor intensive section.
21471 words and I'm on my way!!!
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