{"id":8725,"date":"2022-08-05T08:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2022-08-04T22:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T02:53:24","slug":"outline-like-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/outline-like-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Outline Like The Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>Kent has run out of <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-season-of-the-stubs\/\">stubs<\/a> to work from for Untitled Ghost Novel Number One. Jen is closing in on the next batch, but until they&#8217;re available Kent had to find something else to do with his writing time. So he&#8217;s writing the prose outline for Untitled Ghost Novel Number Two.<\/p>\n<p>A prose outline is like a very detailed synopsis. But while a synopsis skips over subplots and secondary characters, the prose outline is comprehensive. The goal is to capture everything from our brainstorming notes and the <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/a-ghostly-rainbow\/\">plot rainbow<\/a>, putting it all in order with a rudimentary narrative flow. \u00a0Ours typically come in at around twenty pages.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve never met anyone who likes to write synopses. They hurt. If it&#8217;s a one-pager that&#8217;s intended for use in marketing, it&#8217;ll usually be written after the manuscript is completed, and it&#8217;s painful to squash everything down so much. But the prose outline comes beforehand, and it&#8217;s painful because you have to describe a story that you haven&#8217;t really written yet. It&#8217;s sort of like a first draft. Of course, we say that about the rainbow sometimes too. And each stub is a first draft of a particular scene. Maybe a term like prototype, or proof-of-concept, would be more apt for these pre-writing artifacts.<\/p>\n<p>A writing partner is someone who writes the prose outline, when he&#8217;s done procrastinating by writing about writing the prose outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent has run out of stubs to work from for Untitled Ghost Novel Number One. Jen is closing in on the next batch, but until they&#8217;re available Kent had to find something else to do with his writing time. So he&#8217;s writing the prose outline for Untitled Ghost Novel Number Two. A prose outline is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[519,410],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plotting-outlines","tag-ghost-novel","tag-outline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8728,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions\/8728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}