How To Outline A Novel With Sticky Notes

How To Outline A Novel With Sticky Notes. Inciting incident (act 1) 2. Start with your biggest problem.

(or yellow sticky notes, if you prefer.) ready? Go through your outline and identify where your plot shifts to a new act and write these plot points on the colour you’ve chosen to represent your acts. Use a book outline template;

Once these note cards are filled out, you can create cards for transitional events.

Midpoint crisis (act 2b) 4. Take a card or a sticky note and write down the single biggest problem your main character faces. Compensating for word variance, and the fact that even plotted out i might need an extra chapter here or there, i lined up 30 sticky notes, 10 to a row, like this: If you are limited for space, scrivener and aeon timeline are two programs popular with writers for.