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• 3 Tips for Weaving Together Your Story’s Pieces (How to Outline for NaNoWriMo, Pt. 6): It’s impossible to figure out how to outline any one aspect of your story in isolation. Instead, learn 3 ways to “bob and weave” from one to the next.
• How to Structure Your Story’s Outline (How to Outline for NaNoWriMo, Pt. 7): Once you’ve discovered a general idea of your plot, you can use these three steps to figure out how to structure your story’s outline.
• Making the Most of Character Interviews (How to Outline for NaNoWriMo, Pt. 8): Character interviews increase both the ease of writing a new character and his success in driving your plot. Grab my master list of interview questions!
• How to Write a Scene Outline You Can Use (How to Outline for NaNoWriMo, Pt. 9): Here are 6 tricks to making the most of the final outlining step. You’ve been waiting for it a long time, and here it is: how to write a scene outline!