For those who write longer fics...

[flybystardancer]

Do you make an outline first? And how do you keep the action from stalling out in the middle of the story?

I want to try to work on a fic for NaNo, though I'm not going to fuss about word counts. I'm working on an outline for it right now, but I've stalled out with what to do. I have the beginning, I know where I want to end it... I just can't figure out how to get from a to b. It's a huge blank. This seems to happen every time I try to plan out a longer fic. I get the beginning, I get the end, but then I have no clue how to bridge the two.

Comments

[mmouse15.livejournal.com]

I write like antepathy does. Outlines kind of kill my muses. I'll have a sentence or two that describes a key point for every chapter, but nothing more than that.

I'm not very helpful, am I?

[flybystardancer.livejournal.com]

Even a sentence would be more than I have at this point! lol And I'm not entirely strict about the outlines. It's just a way to get an overall shape for the story in place so I can make it longer. (It's also giving me something to do so that I don't actually start writing until November!)