How I Outline a Story: My Personal Method
This is how I carry out the outlining process for my stories, informed by recent creative writing experience. It's broken down into five steps. When I started using the OUTLINE process in my projects, even for the smallest thing I ever wrote as an aspiring writer, one of my many questions was the following: “ How do you develop a GOOD outline, one that is both easy to use and useful throughout the entire story development process? ” After watching many videos on YouTube and reading tutorials on various blogs — each of them useful in its own way — I still felt like something was missing. They helped me learn small pieces of the process, but in the end they left me with an empty vase. Even though these methods were effective for developing a good outline, there was still something I couldn’t grasp. But what was it? While working on my current fanfiction project, I finally understood what I was missing. The elements I lacked were small, yet difficult ...