I have a skill issue where my outlines will have an overarching allegorical meaning, and then when I write, it never seems to gel that way on the page.
Oh, I feel this so much. 💀 I find that when writing the actual story, I end up fixating too much on the individual sentences/language (or overwriting) and the story generally loses the clarity and pacing of the outline.
omg this happens to me all the tiiiime 💀I never outline except for short stories sometimes to give myself an idea then my brain is like GOOD JOB and leaves kajshd 😂
I’m a pantser for partly that reason and partly because I can’t stick to an outline anyway. I use my first draft as the detailed outline and then rewrite it a bunch of times.
I have to outline juuuuuuuuust enough - I need to know where the plot is going and where the emotional arcs are going, but I need to leave how each chapter gets to those points unplanned. So I know by the end of the chapter that the reader will know X and this character will be angry...but not how.
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