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Emergency Outline!

10/31/2017

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Happy All NaNo's Eve!

NaNoWriMo has been steadily approaching, by which I mean that I knew it was coming because November happens every year.  This year it has sneaked up on me and ohmygosh, it’s October 31st!

I am primarily a pantser.  I don’t like outlining, but I do it when I get stuck, or when I have November looming over me, seemingly out of nowhere because, come on guys, how did October go by so fast?

Last year, I tried prepping a little.  I did some bare bones outlines of a couple of story ideas.  These consisted mainly of the story title, basic plot, possible ending, and a few sub plots and scenes I thought I might add.  It was essentially me taking notes while brainstorming.  And you know what?  Last year I finished NaNo for the first time.  Granted, I went rebel in the middle.  I made the mistake of writing an election based story during a Presidential election year, and got sick of all things election before hitting 50,000.  However, it got my writing juices flowing and helped me to finish the word count.  I didn’t follow the outline exactly, but it was a good source of inspiration when I got stuck, especially the scene ideas.

So here we are on October 31st and I’ve done almost no prep.  I have chosen the story I will work on(rebel again, I started it last November).  I have announced it on the NaNo website.  That’s it.  That’s all I’ve done.  I feel unprepared, but still excited.

To ease the growing anxiety over not having prepped, 50,000 words being a lot, I’ve decided to create an emergency outline.  It looks like this:


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It took five minutes. 

Here’s hoping November doesn’t go as fast as October seemed to. 
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