Outlining Your Story

At some point, you have to think about how to handle your story’s structure. The way I did that was to use an index card software program that allowed me to create index...

These days, writers typically work with just one draft of their manuscript, which puts more pressure on the first draft to be as complete as possible. Screenwriter...

Do you outline? R.L. Stine, a National Bestselling Children’s author with over 350 million books sold, tells us that he knows everyone dislikes outlining… including...

Do you outline? R.L. Stine, a National Bestselling Children’s author with over 350 million books sold, tells us that he knows everyone dislikes outlining… including...

Liza Palmer, bestselling author of More Like Her, A Field Guide for Burying Your Parents, offers a surprising tip for how novelists can learn to structure stories. She...