Mad HildebrandtWriters: Do you outline meticulously—or do you let your plot flop around like a wounded fish until it figures out what it wants to be? Asking for my manuscript.
Elyse M Grasso@Mad_Hildebrandt Um. Neither?
With my current series of wips I seem to start out knowing a few tentpole scenes. Then they get fleshed out and the story gets filled in around and between them with increasing levels of detail. That may include adding additional tentpole scenes, but the original pivotal scenes or setpieces rarely go away.
With my current series of wips I seem to start out knowing a few tentpole scenes. Then they get fleshed out and the story gets filled in around and between them with increasing levels of detail. That may include adding additional tentpole scenes, but the original pivotal scenes or setpieces rarely go away.
Bern@ElyseMGrasso @Mad_Hildebrandt I'm with Elyse. I have ideas for significant scenes that I want to be part of the story, and I fill in the rest of the story around them.
Sometimes the scenes change, sometimes they get additions, sometimes they get moved to the ideas pile for a future WIP.
@Bern @ElyseMGrasso I like that—it’s almost like curating a gallery of scenes, and the story decides which ones get to stay on display and which ones go into storage for later masterpieces.
@ElyseMGrasso That actually sounds solid—like building the big circus tent first and then letting the characters run around inside. At least your tentpoles stay upright”