By Rosanne Bane Someone once told me there’s the reason you think you do something and then there’s the REAL reason you do something. It might just be that the real reason I show up to write five days a week is because: #11 I’m accountable. I simply will not tell the students in my … More Reason 11
Announcement for Writers in Minnesota: The Loft is offering a Minn Festival “Is it Time to Give Up Your Day Job?” where more than ten working writers will share their expertise and personal anecdotes about the realities of life as working writers. Register by calling 612-379-8999 or click here. This class is also a fundraiser for the Loft; … More Time to Give Up Your Day Job?
By Rosanne Bane The most promising way I found to blend outlining with drafting is a technique that Robert Olen Butler describes in From Where You Dream. The best part about Butler’s approach is that you start blending from the very beginning, not after you’ve drafted hundreds of pages in multiple drafts or after you’ve … More Blending Both From the Very Beginning
By Rosanne Bane Many of you have found that your solution to debate about outlining vs. drafting is not to determine which approach is superior and rely exclusively on that. You’ve learned how to balance and blend both outlining and drafting. Lori L. Lake, a fellow teaching artist at the Loft Literary Center, says, “I … More The Great Debate Wrap Up
A quick reminder before we resume our debate: The Loft Literary Center is holding an Open House this Saturday, August 22 from 10 am to 1 pm and you’re invited! The Loft is located in the Open Book Building at 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55415. This is your chance to sit in on 15-minute … More You’re Invited!
By Rosanne Bane What’s your writing style: rational or intuitive? Do you prepare an outline before you start drafting? Or do you discover what the structure will be as you draft? Outline-and-Order writers prefer to know where they’re going; they check the map before they start the engine. Actually, they draw the map, then double-check … More The Great Debate: Outline-and-Order vs. Draft-and-Discover
Bane of Your Resistance 