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Rebel without a Plan: Outlining Is the Best Present You Can Give Your Future Self
Nobody ever achieved anything by running off ill-equipped and half-cocked. (Well, nobody except Columbus, but screw that guy. He was basically the Chauncey Gardiner of explorers.)
It's all very romantic (not to mention Romantic) to imagine the noble writer embarking on a creative struggle against the blank page armed with nothing but her wits, emotions, raw talent, and the radiant favor of the Muses. This idea of writing-as-grail-quest is, of course, nothing but fantastical nonsense… but that doesn't mean that nonwriters don't believe it. That dim glow of respect that our ancestors held for bards, poets, and storytellers has never quite worn off. ...
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