Kevin Tinto
Write through it. If I'm stumped on a chapter, scene or other, I just pass right over it. Sometimes writing the last chapter first is the best idea. Then you always have north on your compass, when writing a manuscript. A first draft for me might be a lot of disjointed chapters, notes, a set of XXXXXX which means, I'm clueless on the low level flight characteristics of a B-2 Spirit, Stealth Bomber. Do the research and go back to it.
The idea you're gonna do an outline and then write 5 pages a day of finished manuscript is something only Dean Koontz can do.
It might be a third, fourth, or fifth draft before you're ready to show it to your pro editor. That may involve a number of rewrites. Then send it to beta readers. After all, you are the writer. Don't get caught up chasing beta contrails across the sky.
The idea you're gonna do an outline and then write 5 pages a day of finished manuscript is something only Dean Koontz can do.
It might be a third, fourth, or fifth draft before you're ready to show it to your pro editor. That may involve a number of rewrites. Then send it to beta readers. After all, you are the writer. Don't get caught up chasing beta contrails across the sky.
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