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Outlining

K.M. Weiland looking all writerly, excepting the lack of paper.

Outlining with K.M. Weiland

Author of Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success This week, I’m privileged to have K.M. Weiland back to talk about outlining. Katie is the author of two novels and one book on writing, as well as the blogger behind the award-winning writing site, Wordplay, and the multi-author blog, …

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Jazz, writing and outlining: I’m no ‘Trane

Improviser, please One of the ticks of the writing community I loathe is the use of “pantser” (for seat-of-the-pants-er) to describe people who don’t outline. Pantser brings to mind a middle school boy who yanks down other people’s trousers. Not exactly the kind of person I want to be associated …