Map It: For Writing Success — Fiction And Nonfiction Outlines Made Easy
By Angela Booth
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About this ebook
Are you a writer who hates outlines? I did too, until I realize that the inability to outline was crippling my writing career in many different ways.
I developed the tactics and strategies in this book to help myself. My students have found them essential to producing both fiction and nonfiction almost effortlessly.
These practical and powerful methods of outlining will work for you, even if you think you "can't outline."
Outlining both fiction and nonfiction will become a no-brainer for you, because these strategies are based on the way your brain actually works. There's no need to struggle to make your brain work in any specific way.
If you'd like to write well; write more more easily; and enjoy writing more; this book can help.
The strategies will help you if you're a procrastinator too. No more procrastination.
Have fun. :-)
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Map It - Angela Booth
Map It: For Writing Success; Fiction And Nonfiction Outlines
Made
Easy
Fun, Powerful Outlining Strategies For Writers Who Hate Outlines
Angela Booth
Angela BoothContents
Title
My story: I HATE outlines, but I write them anyway
Neuroscience insights: your body and mind and writing
Kill the block: write to get ideas before, and after outlining
My favorite simple outlining process: the Pearl Method
Free writing: your creative self, and your critic
Reverse outlining: an easy way to improve your writing
Can you describe it? Your book in a paragraph, before (or after) writing
Brain dump it FIRST, before you start your outline
Pictures grow it: visual thinking to kickstart outlines
Talk about it out loud (to yourself): develop seeds for your outline
Create an everything
mind map for long projects
OR create everything
index cards on a whiteboard or bulletin board
A word about research: ask questions first
Different kinds of outlines: choose what works for you
It's time to write your blurb (book description)
Your outline emerges: trim what doesn't fit
Stuck for ideas? Try the ten silly ideas
: method
Quick roundup of the best outlining tips for fiction (for writers who hate outlines)
An easy fiction outlining trick: start with an image
You're on your way... outline!
Excerpts from Angela Booth's Top 70 Writing Tips: Write More, Improve Your Writing, And Make More Money
About the Author
Also by Angela Booth
Title
Map It: For Writing Success
Fiction And Nonfiction Outlines
Made
Easy
Fun, Powerful Outlining Strategies For Writers Who Hate Outlines
By Angela Booth
Copyright © 2017 Angela Booth.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form, anywhere, without prior written permission from the author.
Angela Booth is a copywriter, author, blogger, and writing teacher. Thousands of writers have benefited from Angela’s blogs and writing programs over almost two decades.
You can contact Angela on social media, or via one of her blogs.
Book description
Are you a writer who hates outlines? I did too, until I realize that the inability to outline was crippling my writing career in many
different
ways
.
I developed the tactics and strategies in this book to help myself. My students have found them essential to producing both fiction and nonfiction almost effortlessly.
These practical and powerful methods of outlining will work for you, even if you think you can't outline.
Outlining both fiction and nonfiction will become a no-brainer for you, because these strategies are based on the way your brain actually works. There's no need to struggle to make your brain work in any
specific
way
.
If you'd like to write well; write more more easily; and enjoy writing more; this book
can
help
.
The strategies will help you if you're a procrastinator too. No more procrastination.
Have
fun
. :-)
My story: I HATE outlines, but I write them anyway
Hi fellow writer
I've been writing commercially for almost 40 years. Ouch… I know. It's hard to believe, even
for
me
.
In my early years of making a living from my writing I was much less productive than I could have been. I didn't know what I was doing with my writing, and looked on outlines with fear and suspicion. I envied writers who could outline, but I also knew that I could never become one
of
them
.
I was wrong.
In those years, the web was in the future. We got our information from libraries. Finally in the 1980s, I discovered bulletin board systems, and eventually CompuServe.
CompuServe had an amazing effect on my productivity. I met writers from all over the world on the CompuServe Literary Forum. The Lit Forum authors included then beginning, and later bestselling, novelist Diana Gabaldon, who published excerpts from her then work in progress on the Lit Forum. She was writing a book which went on to become the huge-selling Outlander series of books.
My biggest gift from the CompuServe Literary Forum was the knowledge that I wasn't alone, and that there wasn't something wrong with me because I hated outlines. I discovered that problems with outlining were normal for authors and for writers in general.
However, while struggles may be normal
, it doesn't mean that you need to put up with them. Skill and confidence in creating outlines makes all your writing easier — and that's a great reason to develop the skill.
I decided to write this book because I remember my own struggles. If you hate outlining, please be aware that there is nothing wrong with you, and that you can outline
in your own way. Even if your outlines look nothing like other people's outlines.
Hate outlining? It doesn't have to be
that
way
I crippled my writing because of my hatred of outlining. Today, many of my writing students feel the same way. They hate outlines, so they procrastinate. They fail to achieve their goals, and their motivation dissipates.
Let's fix that. You can hate outlines, and nevertheless
create
them
.
After a while, creating outlines will cease to intimidate you. In fact, you'll become blasé about them.