How to Write a Scene Outline You Can Use (How to Outline for NaNoWriMo, Pt. 9)
Helping Writers Become Authors
K.M. Weiland
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🗓️ 28 November 2016
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the 364th episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I finally had to bring my writing time inside for the first time since July. It is winter after all. I'm a creature of habit so switching |
| 0:28.0 | things up is always distracting to me. But I was surprised to find how much |
| 0:32.4 | more distracted I was surprised to find how much more distracted I was inside where it's quiet |
| 0:35.8 | instead of outside where there are birds and rabbits and trains and cars and |
| 0:41.4 | wind and who knows what else. But I got to tell you those first |
| 0:45.4 | days back inside I had a crazy hard time concentrating. For starters I |
| 0:50.4 | didn't realize until I was back how awesome it was to write away from the computer |
| 0:56.0 | and the internet. |
| 0:58.0 | Hopping on to Pinterest and getting sucked down the dark hole of Black Friday ads is not the recipe for a productive writing session. |
| 1:06.0 | This week I've decided to just shut the whole computer off while I write. |
| 1:10.0 | Take that, like bait. The latest post on my blog is How to Identify the most important part of your story's premise. |
| 1:18.0 | To learn how to identify your story's premise, use these two questions to come up with a high concept that wows readers all the way |
| 1:26.7 | through to the end. To read the post, visit my site at helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast. at Helping Writers Become Authors. |
| 1:33.1 | And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast |
| 1:35.0 | entitled How to Outline for Nanoh Rimo Part 9, |
| 1:38.2 | the final part, how to write a scene outline |
| 1:41.5 | you can use. |
| 1:44.4 | When most people ask how to outline a novel, what they're really asking is how to write |
| 1:48.2 | a scene outline. |
| 1:50.3 | But here's the thing, writing a good scene outline should be the last thing you do in your outlining process. |
| 1:56.5 | Which brings us to the ninth and final part in our two month exploration of how to outline for nanomroimo or any other month in a fun, fulfilling, and profitable |
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