tinkerdan
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My point was:
If you obsess about the outline and try to get everything perfect then you might never get started. It is better to get started and make a rough outline and start writing and if you must, go back and forth between them and embellish as you go along. Trying for perfection the first time around for anything including the outline, is a good recipe for writers block.
@Teresa Edgerton
And I did appreciate his extension of the A.E. VanVogt Slan universe. However I guess we'll have to take his word for his abilities; although thinking you don't need editors or editing and you have everything perfect, and being edited, are two different things--I never think I need editors until they show me what I needed help with. Did he mention whether he does outlines.
Actually I have to take back the I don't know anyone; because I might.
There is this one gentleman I know who must write everything he writes perfectly because he is constantly bothering our office about errors that seem to upset him to an extreme and probably somewhat justified, snit.(He confided that he can't read anything in print that has errors because he catches them all and they annoy him to no end.)
He often sends such directives as: 'What moron wrote this? You should fire him.'
To which I generally have to reply.
'That was the boss. You know the owner of the company, president, chairman of the board and the person who signs our checks.
Do you wish me to forward this complaint to him?'
If you obsess about the outline and try to get everything perfect then you might never get started. It is better to get started and make a rough outline and start writing and if you must, go back and forth between them and embellish as you go along. Trying for perfection the first time around for anything including the outline, is a good recipe for writers block.
@Teresa Edgerton
And I did appreciate his extension of the A.E. VanVogt Slan universe. However I guess we'll have to take his word for his abilities; although thinking you don't need editors or editing and you have everything perfect, and being edited, are two different things--I never think I need editors until they show me what I needed help with. Did he mention whether he does outlines.
Actually I have to take back the I don't know anyone; because I might.
There is this one gentleman I know who must write everything he writes perfectly because he is constantly bothering our office about errors that seem to upset him to an extreme and probably somewhat justified, snit.(He confided that he can't read anything in print that has errors because he catches them all and they annoy him to no end.)
He often sends such directives as: 'What moron wrote this? You should fire him.'
To which I generally have to reply.
'That was the boss. You know the owner of the company, president, chairman of the board and the person who signs our checks.
Do you wish me to forward this complaint to him?'
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