Today I started to outline my story

[AncestorDuck]

In the last year, I wrote over 200k words for my various novels, which never passed chapter 10. It was always the same mistake, I never planned anything and ran out of ideas. But today, I proudly announce that I changed! I evolved and just a few minutes ago, I started to outline my new story, which I finally want to finish!

My tip as a fellow victim: be like me, plan your story.

 

[Jerynboe]

You noticed a problem in your process and are attempting something to address it. I hope it works and even if it doesn’t I suggest you keep iterating until you are the kind of writer you want to be.

 

[AncestorDuck]

You noticed a problem in your process and are attempting something to address it. I hope it works and even if it doesn’t I suggest you keep iterating until you are the kind of writer you want to be.

I did, but 200k words too late

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Not everyone can plan, but yes, planning works.

 

[MarekSusicky]

It was good you recognized it! Better now, than fifty years in the future. My usual process is:

1. Have a plan.
2. Then throw it away, because your character does something crazy you haven't expected.
3. Go back to 1.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Thought this might help, so I'm sharing it.

This outline helped me in finishing my story, which was originally for 20 volumes, but I decided to rewrite it and ended with 21 anyway.

Here's my statistics in ScribbleHub and Syosetu:

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I have 40 chapters of two unplanned stories. And an ongoing story of 60 chapters not planned. ?

 

[CarburetorThompson]

In the last year, I wrote over 200k words for my various novels, which never passed chapter 10. It was always the same mistake, I never planned anything and ran out of ideas. But today, I proudly announce that I changed! I evolved and just a few minutes ago, I started to outline my new story, which I finally want to finish!

My tip as a fellow victim: be like me, plan your story.

I had the opposite problem. I‘d outline too much, I’d know everything that would happen in the story start to finish, and because of that I had no motivation to write the actual chapters

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I kind of do that - but the outlines are in my head and subject to change. Every once in a while I'll write a scene out of sequence in case I might forget it.

 

[HypnoticNovels]

I had the same problem! For my current story, I literally spent 2 years on-and-off (very on and off) purely planning and pre-writing chapters I finished up to like chapter 23 with up to chapter 30-something outlined in detail before I started posting it.

I was able to tweak the story and fix some major plot-holes in advance because of it, so I highly highly highly highly recommend it