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Jun 15, 2011 at 7:13pm
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Re: Outlining -- Methods and Preferences
Hi All!
I've been reading through this thread and thought I'd put in my two cents. I don't "outline". I've never even liked the word. Even in school I'd write an entire assignment before the outline stage was due and then create the outline from the finished project. What a dork, hey? *Smile*

I use a storyboard now. Of course, I use yWriter, too, but I put my more complete ideas in there, total scenes, character sketches, etc. I have a huge poster board that serves as my storyboard. I use sticky notes on the board because it's easy to move things around if I need more scenes before another, if I need to change where scenes happen, etc.

I also use a "people file" for my characters. I'm always clipping pictures out of magazines. It might be a well known actor or politician, or it might be the chick from the Crest ad in Woman's World, it doesn't matter. When I start a story, I go through my people file and find a picture that I think my character might look like. I post those pictures next to my storyboard. I sometimes do the same thing with different settings. My last novel was set in an abandoned state hospital (insane asylum), and I kind of based the facility on Pennhurst, so I printed out a pic from the Internet and hung that next to my storyboard as well.

It's good to know that I'm in the company of other sticky note lovers! I have actually gone to using different colored notes for different things. Yellow might be character notes while purple might be notes about a certain settig, and on down through the colors. The best thing that ever happened to my storyboard? The big, lined sticky notes. You can really write a lot on those bad boys!*Smile*
Beck

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Outlining -- Methods and Preferences · 06-14-11 10:16am
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