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Reddit mentions of Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition
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We found 7 Reddit mentions of Take Off Your Pants!: Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing: Revised Edition. Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | March 2015 |
Try some kind of system for building outlines. Here is one, and really the article details the whole thing. His book on Amazon is just an expaned treatmetn including a worked example. And ther are others like Take of Your Pants.
No problem. I build my outlines very closely to Libbie Hawker's. PM me if you'd like my custom full outline layout based on her book. I have it in a google doc.
Do you follow any particular outlining format? Is there a science to how you plot your character arcs? In the past couple of years, I've been experimenting with the methods in Take Off Your Pants! by Libbie Hawker, and my outlines have definitely improved to a great extent. But I still don't feel I'm at the point yet where they are complete enough to avoid having to do a major plot-level revision.
I've found "Take Off Your Pants" by Libbie Hawker to be useful. It isn't extensive, either.
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I write with my pants half on and half off thanks to this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Off-Your-Pants-Outline-ebook/dp/B00UKC0GHA
Read Take Off Your Pants by Libbie Hawker. She walks you through a great classic format, awesome way to start outlining.
> I initially set out with a goal of 1 release per year, but I was feeling pressure to deliver more than that based on indie trends.
Libbie Hawker's book, Take Off Your Pants shaved a bit of time off my writing, even though I mentally do most of what she talks about in the book. I think it's worth reading. Even if you never want to work with an outline, by thinking about her various questions in the book, your pantsing will even improve.
I find contemporary books take me a lot less time to write than either historical or fantasyland. Even contemporary fantasyland takes about the same as just regular contemporary. So you can't compare yourself to people outside of your subgenre, either, because that often doesn't work.
At the same time, it's important to accept - as best as you can - that your progression will be slower because you aren't writing as fast as others. Some authors want to be making as much money as someone with twenty books and an established fanbase right at book 1, and get very frustrated they aren't getting this immediately. It usually doesn't work out like that, so it's all about head down and do the work as best as you can.