{"id":5809,"date":"2016-01-19T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T05:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2016-01-19T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T05:05:13","slug":"i-never-outline-except-when-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5809","title":{"rendered":"i never outline. except when i do."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been anti outlining. Fine for other people, of course, if they&#8217;re into that sort of thing, but not for me.<\/p>\n<p>But I think writers, or artists in general, should never get too tied down with where they create, or when, or how.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going over the notes about the story I&#8217;m picking up again after a hiatus, and I&#8217;m suddenly aware that my notes are confused about the sequence of places the characters visit (there&#8217;s only two, but in which order?), exactly why they&#8217;re going to one of the two places at all, and exactly who is going (well, mostly that&#8217;s clear, but half of my notes seem to assume that one particular character is going, and the rest don&#8217;t mention him at all &#8212; plus, if he does go, how are they going to fit in one car?).<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, maybe time for an outline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5809&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5809&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been anti outlining. Fine for other people, of course, if they&#8217;re into that sort of thing, but not for me. But I think writers, or artists in general, should never get too tied down with where they create, or when, or how. I&#8217;ve been going over the notes about the story I&#8217;m picking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5809\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}