#outline

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#discovery #first #i #idea #like

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#cried #empty #nothing #outline #past

In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#day #each #even #experience #fact

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? ↗

— Thomas Wentworth

#forever #love #mother #outline #permanent

I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#dealing #events #every #extensively #fairly

The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#concern #main #main concern #matter #minor

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#i #novel #outlined #started #writing

For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story. ↗

— George Stephen

#before #had #i #idea #much

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. ↗

— George Stephen

#changed #first #i #outline #quite

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it. ↗

— Andy Stern

#america #congress #country #deal #does