So I don’t like outlines, I don’t believe you make your characters do what you ask them, even if you ask them nicely, and I don’t believe in “forcing it”. If it isn’t happening, at least for me, no amount of staring at the monitor is going to make it happen. I have decided, however, that this writing gig should be equal parts work and fun, so whatever I write next is going to be fun. Fun as hell. Fun as the slip-and-slides back when it rained enough for the old people to shut up about the lack of rain.
Watch out, world. Whatever I write next is going to make me smile inside, or I ain’t writing it…
Open Water / Open Air 
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I’m a fan of outlines, but fun sounds like fun…
October 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’ve seen the results of your outlines, so I’m not going to knock them. I love what you do with them, and, for the record, that brain-bubble association thing you showed us on the last day of clarion doesn’t count as an outline, to me. (That way I can still happily use it and not go against my “no outline” stance.)
October 7th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Oh man, how I agree. Revision and redrafting is boring as hell….but I must learn it, I MUST. Go with the fun dude!
your next story must contain
a) a muscle-car
b) a discus
c) vengeance