(This post was suppose to go out last week, but life happens! 🙂 Hope you enjoy!)
When I was younger, I would love to sit and watch people and wonder where they were going and what their stories were. Because everyone has a story. As I got older, that interest in stories grew and inspired a desire to travel and see new places. Both in my own country and abroad.
Whenever I get a new idea for a story, one of my favorite parts of the writing process is the outlining phase. But what exactly is a story outline? Well, I like to think of it as the chance to get your story and all its ideas out into the light from the swirl in your brain. Where you can see them and examine them. You can really make outlining as easy or as hard a phase as you want.
Some people like to jump right into writing their first draft and see where their ideas will take them without any prep work beforehand.
I am not one of those people though! Maybe it’s because I was taught in school that to write a good story, research paper, letter, whatever; it is important to at least have an idea of what you are going to say!
This is just a short list of a few things I have found that (for me at least!) are helpful to remember and do when I am sitting down to write.
Legends and Roses 