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"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."

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"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."

"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
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