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RMatthewWare:
Outlines.  No outlines.  In the end you gots to do what works for you.

I outline.  When it came to writing my novel, I wrote down every idea I had, wherever I was.  I kept all of these ideas in a notebook.  Then, I started to organize these into where they would happen in the novel.  Eventually it was able to be expanded into a chapter by chapter outline.  It made writing a lot easier.  I knew where I was starting, what needed to happen from start to finish, and where I was ending.  Now on my fourth draft, the story has drastically changed from that outline, but the skeleton is still there, I've just rearranged and bulked up some of the flesh.

Matt

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