The Googly-Eye Outline & The Red String Map
The Googly-Eye Outline & The Red String Map Drawing your destination (Or: How to Write Without a Straitjacket) If you just read my latest posts on Foxxfyrre Writes or Medium, you probably think I am a very structured, deeply philosophical writer. I talked about the "Half-Lit Outline." I talked about stress-testing the structural integrity of time-travel paradoxes. It all sounded very smart. But this is the Honk'n'Holl'r, where we tell the truth. And the truth is, sometimes my "outline" is a poorly drawn stick figure, a random line of dialogue I thought of in the shower, and a corkboard covered in red yarn. When you write massive novels, you need a map. But when I write Flash Fiction or Episodic serials for this blog, the rules change completely. Turnng Left at Albuquerque The Flash Fiction Stick Figure For Flash Fiction, I don't need an outline; I just need a destination. And that destination is usually an absurd twist. Years ago, I wrote a fl...
