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Originally Posted by Marj
Well, I guess I might be Camp 1 1/2. I do plan a rough outline, know where my book is going to end, (though it doesn't always stick to that ending) but I'm a long way from planning chapter to chapter, and like a new water-course, it tends to make its own way to the sea.
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Sounds like my method, too, Marj, although my synopsis is quite detailed. Usually runs to about three A4 pages. And then I write my characters' prehistory, that is what has happened to them before the story starts, so I know how they were formed.
Then I take out my calendar and jump a couple of years ahead and start planning major events there, including characters' birthdays. It's the only real way to get a plausible time line I think. I mean you can't have someone start to learn to drive, say, on June 1, and take their test a week later.
And still they surprise me.