The Courage to Live It

The Courage to Live It

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The Courage to Live It
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Outline or Improv?

Outline or Improv?

Nine Month Novel Week 5: Thoughts on Plotting v. Flying-By-The-Seat-of-Your-Pants-ing

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Van Gogh’s “The Painter on the Road to Tarascon”

Welcome to the Nine Month Novel series! You can either use this series of posts and videos every Friday as a track to write your own novel (in around nine months), or you can simply watch each one individually and receive encouragement in whatever area the video covers for the week. All 78 of our writing videos (which include the series for the Nine Month Novel, Six Month Memoir, and the ReVision Experience) are available to paying subscribers anytime.

Do you outline your stories ahead of time, or do you simply start writing and fly by the seat of your pants? Or maybe you’re just getting started and you’re wondering which to try first?

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