Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Flow Charts and Spreadsheets and Outlines Oh My!

A few posts ago I wrote about my foray into spreadsheetdom, with regard to publisher research and submissions tracking. This has led to creating an outline for a newish idea for a novel I've been kicking around.

In the past I have spouted on about how much an outline "wouldn't work." Oh, and how outlines "take the excitement out of creating." Stuff like that. These things are possible, but as I was forcing my daughter to take a bite of chicken not long ago, I considered this fact: I have never TRIED it. And, frankly, the novel writing I've been doing is perhaps one step above underwhelming. This is a lot because of the lack of plot organization. So, on with the experimental outline! And did you know what a beautiful flowchart you can make with Word 2007? Alas, the flowchart will wait. I'm starting with storynotes. One step at a time. . . .

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2 comments:

Vivian Mahoney said...

I'm glad you like my posts. Thanks so much for the shout out.

Best of luck with your outline.

Lori Van Hoesen said...

Thanks Hipwritermama :o)