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Oct 7, 2024 at 9:50pm
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Edited: October 7, 2024 at 10:06pm
I understand what you are asking. This is the process of outlining. The reason why we are asked to work on our climax this early is because we want to know where the story is going. For example, in this case, you'd have worked out how your story begins. You need to know how your story ends, usually what the climax is so you know how to work your way there and build the story towards that direction. While a lot of people are not used to idea of working their story this way especially when they are so used to pantsing their novels, personally, my issue—as it is for many writers—is that we tend to write the story off to Timbaktu and have no idea how to end our story. In my case, during my much more amateurish novel-writing years, I have consistently gotten stuck after writing 20k words because I no longer know where the story is going. Outlining and working out your climax early in the story will help you navigate out of there. At the same time, it would help develop your sense of story. I say that because we can build a perfectly good outline, but at the end of the day, during the writing process, I have experienced how my actual writing takes off in a different direction from what I have outlined. That is okay. Just let your fingers lead the way, but always bearing in mind the story structure, labelling what part of the story you think it is so that you could have some sort of guide to what happens next to finally reach the end. Sometimes, when we write without thinking, we find that we build more problems into the story, not resolutions that we have outlined enough for a trilogy instead of a novel. That is why I mentioned that we have to be mindful of which part of the story we are at when we write a certain scene or a vignette. Hope that helps.  |
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Re: Outline