Are you like John Irving, who outlines his novels to the last detail? Or are you more like Flannery O’Connor, who works the story out through multiple drafts?
There are many thoughts on the internet about the pros and cons of outlining a story before you write it but when it comes down to it, it is about the writing:
We’re all born with an imagination. Everybody gets one. And I really believe—this is just from years of daily writing—that good fiction comes from the same place as our dreams. I think the desire to step into someone else’s dream world, is a universal impulse that’s shared by us all. That’s what fiction is.
Read the rest here at The Atlantic and weigh in.
