| Re: Have a plot outline, now what?
I started a story last week. I wrote an epilogue and two chapters without much pre-planning. Now I realize I have not laid down the proper foundation for my characters and I will have to scrap everything and start over.
I am going to take each character and write a semi-detailed backstrory so I know exactly who they are and why. Then I'm going to outline my story. I outline everything I write at work so it makes no sense to do otherwise in my fiction.
When I write outlines at work, I make a caption that tells, in one sentence, everything that will be said in that section. That way, the reader can figure everything out just by reading the captions. Pinnochio was written this way. You can read the titles of the chapters and know everything without reading any more. |