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Tried writing with an outline vs. just winging it for a short story last week
I spent 3 hours mapping out every scene for a fantasy short story, but when I actually wrote it, the characters felt stiff and predictable. Then I scrapped the outline and just wrote from a single opening image, and the story flowed way better in half the time. Has anyone else found that overplanning kills the creative spark for them?
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theabennett3d agoTop Commenter
Eh gotta disagree. Outlines just give me a roadmap so I don't write myself into a corner later. Saves me way more time than starting from scratch.
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Nah, outlines just mean I get to be disappointed in my ending three days earlier.
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