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Outlining While Revising - The After Process
- A trick I found useful when it comes to being a plantser when you draft, and that is to outline as you revise.
- Plantser is someone who does minimal planing and discovery writes the majority of the novel
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Creating the outline
- I don't re-write my whole book for a second draft. Instead, I go through and leave notes both in the document and on an outline as I read through it for the first time since it was finished.
- This allows me to refresh the story in my head, but also see things that I'd like to change in the next draft.
- From there I will construct my outline. I write down a summary of what happens in every chapter and add any tweaks and changes that I'd like to work into it.
- Within my outline I have a colour-coded system for each plot point, arc and other big picture things that need to be woven through the chapters.
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Revision process
- First tackle the big picture stuff, like plot points that don't work, or things that need to be added into it
- For me, it doesn't make sense to be worried about the sentence flow when you're not even sure that sentence will make the cut
- All this is marked on my outline using color codes
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Revision Color Codes
- Red is for things that need to get cut/changed massively with a lot of rewriting
- Green is for smaller plot/arc changes that will be threaded through the book
- Yellow is something that I'm not sure if it works or not
- Purple are plot points that can't be changed without having a massive effect on the rest of the book/series
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