Hi Ivy Blossom! I read in one of your posts a while ago that you sometimes outline stories in a spreadsheet. How exactly does that work? How does it help you? I always struggle with outlining and am curious about how you’d organize everything. Thanks!

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ivyblossom:

Well, every project is different, to say nothing of every writer being different! But yes, I do find a spreadsheet useful for outlining. Especially so when I have a project with a lot of different strands in it that I want to sort of braid together through the story. 

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I’ve been talking with a couple of writer friends lately about outlining.  We’re at a similar level of writing skill, and we seem to all be butting up against the need to develop our outlining skills to keep moving forward. At some point I think most of us discover that we need more sophisticated ways of organizing, conceptualizing and navigating around in our stories.

I told them Ivy is the person to talk to about that.

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