Writer's Hideout - Lesson i - Page 3

Sorry for not posting here a long time. Hopefully I'll get back on track with this.
For this lesson, I'm going to teach you the basics of any good story: outlining.
An outline is something which you do to have a clear definition of what you want to do, for example, here's a summary for a story:
Jane hates living in the country, so when an offer from a foreign uncle says that she's welcome to visit for the summer, she's delighted beyond joy, but her uncle's house holds more secrets than she knew.How will she react when she knows the secrets hidden from light?

It's not much, but it's fine to get started with. Now, here's how I outline;
1. Divide the summary/etc into three sections; beginning, body and end.
Jane hates living in the country, so when an offer from a foreign uncle says that she's welcome to visit for the summer, she's delighted beyond joy, but her uncle's house holds more secrets than she knew. How will she react when she knows the secrets hidden from light?

You can cleary see the different sections.

2. Putting it down in detail;
Now, it's time to begin putting our ideas down. The outline doesn't need to be perfect, and you can easily change/deviate from it when you're writing your first draft. You will need a decent word processing program. I use Microsoft OneNote (you can download that from the app store in Windows 8, or 8.1.) Here's an example of the sort of outlining I do:



I organize my events chapter by chapter, but you can do it any way you want.
You can see my bad outlining skills.

Assignment: Have a summary for a writing project you want to cover for this entire class, and have an 8 chapter outline. It doesn't need to be fancy. Just turn it in by the end of this month at the least.