Topic: Outlines or Treatments?
Hi everyone,
I'm pretty new to the site so this may be a silly question, but is there a platform within this site to edit story outlines or treatments as opposed to just diving into chapters?
- Si-Mack
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- Dirk B.
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Re: Outlines or Treatments?
Not really, although my outlines takes the form of nested bullets in Word. Whatever your format, try posting it as a short story and see if the structure survives the cut and paste. Short stories feature prominently on the home page, so you should get good visibility. Don't forget to set the genre. And review other people's work to build ongoing relationships and get more reviews in return.
- Dirk B.
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Re: Outlines or Treatments?
Also, if you want to do brainstorming beyond what you can get from simple reviews create a discussion thread with the topic "story name - pen name" in the Medieval/Fantasy Magic group. I know that's a weird place to put it, but I don't know of any other active groups besides that one and Premium. A bunch of us hang out there when we really should be writing.
- Si-Mack
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Hahaha - sounds great! Thanks Dirk 
- Dirk B.
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I just tried publishing a short story containing part of my book's outline, including multiple levels of bullets. The site handled it perfectly.
- Si-Mack
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That's awesome. Thanks so much, its a great idea!
- j p lundstrom
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I don't see the point in publishing your outline. I do outline everything beforehand, but more often than not, genius ideas (my words) strike as I'm working, changing the story and rendering the original outline useless. You wouldn't want to feel bound to the outline just because you devoted so much time to it.
Why ask for critiques on something that's only a jumping-off point? It takes a careful reviewer at last a half hour to write a review, time that might be better spent on the actual work, don't you think? Also, you don't want to spend so much time on your outline the story goes stale.
I think posting your ideas in a group for discussion among friends sounds like a good plan, though I'm not sure how that works. You might want to visit the group and see what they're doing with the idea. JP
