Tah Dah, it’s 2009!

Posted by Susan in Book Blog Entertainment and Pop Culture.

Happy New Year, everyone! Time to roll out a new year’s worth of doable but stretch-worthy goals…

One thought to plop on the table…

Outlining is my favorite procrastination tool. But I’m compelled to stick with it. I don’t want to submit a hot, wandering mess. You can’t escape the story arc. No matter how artful your prose.

Currently, I’m stuck in limbo. Needing the structure. But wanting to wander off the plotted track, when inspiration nudges… author Jessica Anya Blau wrote The Summer of Naked Swim Parties as it moved her, and the arc was hammered out later with her agent. Click here for my interview. Stephen King also writes without a net…

How bout you? Do you map it, or do you wing it? And, mappers and wingers alike, here’s to a next year of burstful imagination!

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