To Outline…Or Not???

By |2016-12-20T19:29:39-08:00March 12th, 2010|beginning writers, Easy Writer, fiction/nonfiction, Kathi Macias, outlines, train-of-thought|

Ronel Sidney asked if I ever started a writing project with an outline and then ended up not following it and going in a different direction. Yes…though not often. The reason is twofold.

First, I seldom use outlines. (I know, I know! We’re supposed to, and with nonfiction I create a very basic, barebones […]