Well Pilgrim, Write!: Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Success by K. M. Weiland

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Success by K. M. Weiland

Today I finished reading Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Success by K. M. Weiland.

I follow Ms. Weiland's blog Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors. And I have found her writing advice to be very sound. So when she published Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Success, I bought and read a copy.

I'm a planner so the idea of planning a novel via an outline is my natural course. I'm a big fan of Larry Brooks' how-to-write books and his Story Fix blog. I found Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Success gave me many practical ideas on how to implement an outline. And while she may have plowed the ground before in her blog, this presentation is fresh.

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