SFFMP 174: Outlining Your Novel for More Efficient Writing and Starting New in Epic Fantasy
Today, we were joined by return guest Scott King, the author of Outline Your Novel: The How To Guide for Structuring and Outlining Your Novel and The Five Day Novel, as well as numerous fantasy and young adult adventures. He recently jumped into epic fantasy with the first book in his Elderrealm series, Wrath of Dragons. We grilled him on outlining and also how he found starting out in epic fantasy this year after publishing in other genres previously.
Here are some of the specifics that we talked about:
- How an outline can help an author become more efficient.
- Whether pantsers can get anything out of outlining.
- Outlining a single novel versus doing a series.
- Starting with a pitch and then developing an outline.
- Mistakes authors make with outlining.
- What to do if the story diverges from the outline as you write it.
- How tough it is to break into epic fantasy today as an author new to the genre.
- Whether Kindle Unlimited/KDP Select is a good idea for epic fantasy.
- The pros and cons of mailing list swaps.
- The challenges of genre jumping.
You can find Scott on his website or Twitter, and grab his first epic fantasy novel Wrath of Dragons or his outlining book, Outline Your Novel.
Also, check out his Creators Cast podcast.
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