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Outlining vs structuring vs plotting your book

Whether you're a plotter or pantser you're likely doing a bit of this

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Monalisa Foster
Jan 17, 2024
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Believe it or not, outlining your novel is not the same as plotting it or structuring it. Who knew? I certainly didn’t. The terms are used interchangeably after all.

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From an outsider’s perspective (a non-writer) I understood outlining to mean that abomination that they made you do in school, with Roman numerals and convolu…

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