The Skellingcorner

[The Skellingcorner]

Ok, so I got massively stuck on chapter 10/25 of my project, which I thought was just me losing interest, but, after doing some minor redrafting, might actually have been a sign that the chapter was not pulling its weight.

So today has become Frankenchapter day.

I’ll be merging two chapters while trying to keep them neat and tidy, and average length. There will be some serious trimming, but hopefully we’ll shed all the excess fluff and come out looking more like the after picture of Shrek the Sheep, rather than the clotted mess we’re trying to untangle.

How do you outline your writing? Do you start at the beginning and discover the story as you move along? Do you write scenes, then shuffle them into a narrative line? Do you plot the whole thing out before writing at all?