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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
I realized I wrote this thread without answering my own question...
I've tried outline. I've tried flow. TPR was outlined in a 10 page outline. Looking back over it, it seems that I only hit on half of my outline. The rest must have been all Flow. I just discovered that I threw the main points of the outline to the wind at chapter 2! After that, I think it just served as a guideline.
My problem with Flow was that when I didn't have the writing bug, everything would just sit idle and forgotten by the time I felt like I should be working again... this has caused me enough grief to have a bookshelf of seven(!) titles started but never finished.
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I'm with you there. You have catch the mood or you can be stuck completely and not have anywhere to go when you're using the Flow method. If I find myself in that spot I usually just word-associate and something new comes out of it. But sometimes, when nothing's coming at all, it's worse than hell.