Hey, I know how it feels just starting off writing, not knowing your voice, where to start and how to get all that information in your head out and it not be in a jumbled mess.
Well I'm gonna share some of the things I've learned from writing storie...
Finally, we have made it to the step before you finally get to write. Now you need an outline. Outlines are important. Why? Why are they so important when I can just write the whole book and skip that boring useless step, right? Well, not only are they important to keeping a consistent overall flowing story, but they can be fun. They can make you excited to write your book even more.
Do you remember that initial idea? The one that is written in broken English (or whatever language you write in) and is just a bunch of short vague sentences? Yeah that one. We come full circle back to it. Now that you know everything about characters, the setting and what you want everything to look like, you can fill it in. Fill it in? So, those sentences can be broken up into chapters, if you use ms notepad or have some highlighters handy, lets get started.
So, bullet points are a must. I like to use the empty square or circle for mine because once that idea has been written in the story, you can change it to a check mark to record what you have done.
Now turn all of those sentences into a bulleted list, then (starting with the first one) go under it, indent, and start adding more sentences that further explain the events of that chapter. I'm sure you're thinking how is that fun? It sounds boring. Well because the more you flesh it out, the more you really get into describing what is going to happen in your book piece by piece, you start to REALLY want to write it. (or at least I do.) I enjoy watching it come to life, but even more so when the chapters are complete and I can look back at what it all started with.
Then highlight each section so you can tell which section is which.
EX: sorry I had to blur it all out, it has spoilers for my upcoming book lol
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This is just how I do it, however. You can figure out what works for you when you make one, if you want. But I have found it much easier to do my outlines like this because when I start writing I read the chapter recap and just write that. I take it one chapter at a time. That way you can think more about the now, rather than the later.
