| Re: plan or not to plan that is the question
I refer to my plan as 'skeletal', a lot. It tells me what the major events and occurrences are, and roughly when they happen in relation to one another (and perhaps a short paragraph of notes of their significance).
I don't plan in 'chapters' or 'books', however. I won't know until I've written a particular section of narrative exactly how long it will be and what it will contain. But the general outline has to be there, for me, or I wouldn't know where I was going next.
Teresa's last sentence pretty much sums it up, for me. You settle into a way of working that you like, and which works for you.
And if the plan is outdated and is restricting what you want to do next, you have to bin it, and start all over again. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to redraft my structural plan....... |