The Hidden Danger Lurking in Your Lengthy Outline—And How It Could Ruin Your Writing
- How good the story is.
- How fast we get the story written.
So there are worse things in life than writing a very long outline in Step 4 of your Snowflake document for your novel. In the grand scheme of things, six pages is not too much to explain 100 pages of story.
What you have, Lindsey, is a useful tool for creating your Scene List in Step 8 of the Snowflake. Every paragraph of your outline will cover roughly one or two scenes of your novel. This is a little ahead of yourself, but that’s not a crime.
