Comments on: How pantsers can embrace the outline http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/ about the craft and business of fiction Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: thea http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102572 thea Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:39:11 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102572 i definitely need a roadmappy type of outline, especially if i have some dangling mystery i want to include. and it being a roadmap, so to speak, my characters can traipse all over the place. and if i'm changing something i can find it faster as i trace back. i definitely need a roadmappy type of outline, especially if i have some dangling mystery i want to include. and it being a roadmap, so to speak, my characters can traipse all over the place. and if i’m changing something i can find it faster as i trace back.

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]]> By: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102476 Kathleen Bolton Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:38:14 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102476 "Though it sits before you in black and white, it’s there on paper, not set in stone." So true! Thanks for reposting a classic, Therese. Lots of goodies in here. “Though it sits before you in black and white, it’s there on paper, not set in stone.”

So true! Thanks for reposting a classic, Therese. Lots of goodies in here.

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]]> By: Kristan http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102473 Kristan Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:22:51 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102473 Thank you for this. Like you and Maya, I'm a hummingbird-who-wants-to-be-an-owl, and it's hard. And I too am struggling to convert a beloved project into something more, using owlish ways, and it's hard. But I'll keep trying. Thank you. Thank you for this. Like you and Maya, I’m a hummingbird-who-wants-to-be-an-owl, and it’s hard. And I too am struggling to convert a beloved project into something more, using owlish ways, and it’s hard. But I’ll keep trying. Thank you.

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]]> By: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102466 Therese Walsh Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:15:32 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102466 Oh, Maya, I'm a pack-rat, too. Maybe you're onto something! Vicky, I hope you become unstuck soon. Let us know! Oh, Maya, I’m a pack-rat, too. Maybe you’re onto something!

Vicky, I hope you become unstuck soon. Let us know!

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]]> By: Vicky McAulay http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102463 Vicky McAulay Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:40:03 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102463 Glad you pulled out this post, I've become stuck in my current project. I'll follow your advice and take a few fluttering steps back and outline it. Hopefully it will get the gears moving again. Glad you pulled out this post, I’ve become stuck in my current project. I’ll follow your advice and take a few fluttering steps back and outline it. Hopefully it will get the gears moving again.

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]]> By: Maya http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102462 Maya Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:27:12 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2009/02/17/how-pantsers-can-embrace-the-outline/#comment-102462 Thanks for this really helpful post! I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways. (Hmm... I wonder if that translates to other parts of life. I'm also sometimes a pack rat trying to learn neat-freakish ways--just enough to keep me on track!) Thanks for this really helpful post! I suspect that I, too, am a hummingbird trying to learn owlish ways. (Hmm… I wonder if that translates to other parts of life. I’m also sometimes a pack rat trying to learn neat-freakish ways–just enough to keep me on track!)

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