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In 'The Purity Myth,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its consequences for women, but also outline a new way for us to think about young women as moral actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.
Jessica Valenti
Women
Myth
Young
Think
Consequences
Way
Moral
About
Outline
Only
Purity
New
Also
Reveal
Discuss
New Way
Young Women
Us
Bodies
Include
Actor
I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.
John Darnielle
Will
Whatever
Down
Outline
Kitchen
Write
Idea
Stuff
Faint
Go
Office
Goes
Where
Format
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.
John Scalzi
Way
Outline
Write
Part
Along
Particular
Discovering
Going
Just
Happening
Story
Fun
Novels
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.
Joyce Maynard
Me
Not Knowing
Other
Way
Out
Outline
Writers
Count
Part
Adventure
Know
Knowing
How
Friends
Going
Turn
Certainly
Who
I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.
Julie Kagawa
Me
Ending
Rest
Other
Characters
Kind
High
Something
Outline
Stubborn
Points
Along
Make
Occasionally
Make Up
Got
How
Go
Surprise
Up
Wonder
Times
Want
Happen
Story
Them
Then
Things
Start
Here
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.
Justin Cronin
Long
Back
Books
Adhere
Pretty
Outline
Direction
Taking
New
New Direction
Go
Get
Closely
Where
Averse
Each
Need
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
Kami Garcia
Important
Plot
Outline
More
Inspiration
Beat
Points
Part
Major
Most
Sheet
Important Part
Hits
Move
The Most Important
Process
Which
Board
Note
Start
Cards
I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
Katherine Moennig
Back
East
East Village
Outline
Parlor
Call
Got
Tramp
Tattoo
Them
Lower
Stamps
Village
Now
Violin
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
Ken Follett
Word
First
Research
Every
Easiest
Out
Outline
Most
Because
Very
Rewrite
Fun
Satisfying
Hardest
Draft
I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
Ken Follett
Work
Great
Chapter
Year
Before
Every
Spend
Out
Characters
Outline
Write
Happens
Work Out
Planner
Who
Ever
I usually know where I want to end up when I begin, but I have no idea how I'm going to get there... I don't write with an outline, and surprises happen on the way, and sometimes it changes.
Kevin Henkes
Sometimes
Changes
Way
No Idea
Outline
Write
Idea
Know
How
Surprises
End
Up
Begin
Get
Going
Where
Want
Happen
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
Khaled Hosseini
Me
Own
Way
Find
Outline
Like
Spontaneity
Boxes
Surprise
Story
Useful
Element
Letting
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Outline
Sort
Passed
Exists
Reform
Legislation
Being
Tax
Tax Reform
Miles
Away
Actual
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.
Lucy Larcom
Time
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Sky
Thought
Rose
Spend
Saw
Paper
Drawing
Willing
Some
Seemed
Outline
Only
Could
Wished
Make
Were
Years
Heard
Bloom
Trying
Artists
Against
Succeed
Them
If I Could
Should
Last
In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.
Marillyn Hewson
You
Learning
Listening
Challenge
Leader
Employees
Others
Once
Must
Clarity
Outline
Uncertainty
Open
No-One
Particular
Understand
Always
Making
Answers
Optimistic
Times
Options
Expects
Confident
Crave
Decisions
Bold
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
Mercedes Lackey
Work
Book
Writing
Events
Before
Broad
Details
Some
Finer
Outline
Know
Always
Begin
No, no. I draw the line there. Anything that's going to show an outline of my manhood is not on.
Mike Colter
Draw
Outline
Line
Going
Manhood
Anything
Show
A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
Mike Huckabee
Vision
Leader
Broad
Say
Hood
Outline
Direction
How
Go
Up
Get
Manager
Gets
Going
Where
Tunes
Who
Why
Actually
Here
Need
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
Nassau William Senior
Time
Science
Trust
Will
Made
Recognised
Out
Some
Outline
Generally
Part
Clearly
Come
Perhaps
Instruction
Principles
Within
Fixed
Form
Us
Elementary
Lives
We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth. To that Science we give the name of Political Economy.
Nassau William Senior
Nature
Science
Wealth
Political
Distribution
Following
Give
Outline
Propose
Name
Economy
Political Economy
Which
Production
Treatise
Treats
I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.
Nelson Algren
You
Book
Slow
Own
Way
Plot
Finds
Something
Finish
Outline
Only
Could
Longer
Suppose
Know
Until
Because
Always
Making
Fit
Get
Just
Happens
Then
Working
Figured
Keep
Thing
I write through improvisation. I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go.
Nia Vardalos
You
People
Will
Out
Outline
Tend
Through
Write
Never
Idea
Know
How
Go
Improvisation
Movie
Card
Start
One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair.
Nicole Eggert
Hair
Locks
Guy
Outline
Foot
Another
Wanted
The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.
Noah Hawley
Art
You
Business
Waiting
Sit
OK
Run
Outline
Write
Look
Calendar
Around
Making
Due
Go
Script
Production
Your
Show
Thing
Muse
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker
Writing
First
Way
Paper
Slovenly
Outline
Very
Get
Anything
Story
Draft
Before the lipstick goes anywhere near the lips, I like to apply a tiny amount of foundation or concealer to create a really great base. This then makes it easier to guide the bullet of the lipstick along the lip outline.
Pat McGrath
Great
Before
Guide
Easier
Outline
Along
Like
Makes
Bullet
Lip
Lips
Lipstick
Goes
Tiny
Anywhere
Then
Create
Really
Base
Foundation
Near
Amount
Apply
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