Didn’t you know? A bad outline is the death of a good story.
How can you be creative when everything is already planned out for you?
No emotion in the writer, no emotion in the reader.
How can you follow this rule when you already know everything that’s going to happen?
Like an overbearing parent, a detailed outline can suck all the danger and excitement out of your next story. Here’s a post from NY Book Editors that explains all the problems writers, especially newer writers, cause for themselves whenever they outline their work.
So that’s it? All this talk about how dangerous outlines are, let’s just forget about them?
Please. If not for your sake, think of your readers. You gotta outline.
WHY? You’re a creative person, and you’ve got a million ideas, and whenever you sit down to write, you always seem to come up with more. What do YOU need an outline for?
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P. S. Hoffman 