Scene Ahead Approach

Some writers are plotters. They write a detailed outline of the entire story before writing a scene. Some writers are pantsers. They write with no outline and no idea where they are going. I started as a plotter. I wrote a wonderful ten-chapter outline for my first book.  But when the book ended up being thirty chapters, that was the end of outlining. However, I also found I could not just plow ahead with no idea where I was going. I came up with a process that is a combination of the two extremes. It’s a technique I call scene ahead.

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