Eric Walters

I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

Canadian Author

Jesmyn Ward

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

American Novelist

Julie Kagawa

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

American Author

Karen Robards

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

Per Petterson

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

Norwegian Novelist

Joe Swanberg

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

American Actor

Jerry B. Jenkins

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Harlan Coben

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

American Coach

Hallie Ephron

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

Use 'outline' to structure thoughts or plans before detailing.

Planning Tool

'Outline' implies a short, to-the-point description without unnecessary details.

Brevity Key

When you 'outline', focus on major ideas, not specifics.

Highlight Main Points

Use 'outline' for conveying preliminary concepts at initial stages.

Early Stages

'Outline' emphasizes the clear visual boundary of objects or figures.

Visual Clarity

Use 'outline' to differentiate one shape from its surroundings.

Distinguish Forms

Use 'outline' when drawing to highlight the edges of shapes.

Emphasize Boundary

'Outline' can be used to simplify complicated subjects into basic shapes.

Simplify Complex

 than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure. Is there any relief from some of these pressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to a few of them. Let's take meritocracy.

A kinder, gentler...

 it goes through the steps we just outlined. First it collects data about your answers, then it compares your choices and preferences to other people's in simple, mathematical ways. This, the ability to take real-world phenomena and make them something a microchip can understand, is, I think, the most important skill anyone can have these days.

Inside OKCupid: The math...

 so therefore I stand then I started singing some of these songs again and the reason for that was because they have this kind of innocent very simple kind of like childlike thick outline and colorization primary color it all the songs have that kind of feeling and

A message of peace, hope...

 Which I'm glad you liked, but they did not like that at all. Silence on the phone. And into the silence, I said, "I'd be happy to speak at your school, but that's not a wellness week, that's a sickness week. You've outlined all the negative things that can happen,

The happy secret to...

 that it doesn't need much talking about -- but I guess I may be very wrong about that, and everything else that I've said. So don't go back and read my dissertation. It probably has lies in it as well. Having said that, I outlined my talk about five minutes ago.

The call to learn PIPE...

 and I make work about technology. I do things like draw life-size outlines of military drones in city streets around the world, so that people can start to think and get their heads around these really quite hard-to-see and hard-to-think-about technologies.

The nightmare videos of...

 Iambic pentameter is when he takes ten steps. Our pirate friend can even help us remember how to properly mark it if we image the footprints he leaves walking along a deserted island A curve for unstressed syllables, and a shoe outline for stressed ones.

Why Shakespeare loved...

 out there by all due respect National Geographic you know big settlements thousands of houses and all that they say oh look we found the outline of a house the steps go down this is where they had their

Stonehenge Theories with...

 will hear echoes of their experiences and outlines of what's possible. We can, and we must, engage parents, demand equity, support the whole student and rethink assessment.

Nora Flanagan: What...

 but for the most sensational spectacle you have to turn the lights of the submarine off a jellyfish outlined by its own pulsing