Outlining: What-If Exercises and Variants

10 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by André J. Powell in Arenn's Sorrows, K.M.Weiland, Outlining, Writing

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It might be expected that N. and A. are in love. What if N. doesn’t love A. at all, but fearing that if he turns to K., she will lose access to the resources he represents, she sincerely tries to love him as he desires, but in the end just can’t—and though she saves her people and truly expresses her heart, she sets the great tragedy into motion (hell-if-I-know what that tragedy is yet!)?

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I’ve Decided to Set Aside WIP 6.1

04 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by André J. Powell in Arenn's Sorrows, K.M.Weiland, Outlining, Writing

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Why I have stopped working on my present WIP
Though I have written nearly 80k words worth of WIP6 rough draft and research to date, the plot and story presently feel more disjointed and awkward than I imagine a rough draft should. I have therefore called a halt to any further composition until I have put my story through some sort of structured filter (read outline) by which it can be examined for missing and/or misshapen features. What follows is my plan.

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