Step 3. Construct your outline. Writing your book without a clear vision of where you’re going usually ends in disaster. Even if you ’re writing a fiction book an d consider yourself a Pantser* as opposed to an Outliner, you need at least a basic structure. [*Those of us who write by the seat of our pants and, as Stephen King advises, pu t interesting characters i n difficult situations ... More @Wikipedia
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