As someone who enjoys outlining, you know I was LIVING for this haha. I totally find it easier to write a blurb/synopsis/summary/pitch before writing the book - so much easier to summarise when the unimportant details can't distract you because you haven't even thought of them yet! Also all the food you made in this looked so yum. CONGRATS ON MAKING 100k!! 🧡 P.S I've just finished my first 'big' crochet project (a soft toy as opposed to granny squares and stitch practice).
Perfect timing! I just sat down to write for today. I saw a meme about how January is a trial month and that February 1st was the real start of the year. I've been really tired this week so I'm rolling with that!
I am stealing this! I do something a little similar by letting myself outline/play with the shiny new idea, but all these projects are scattered. I love the idea of having them all organized in one place. Writing's so cool, man. You never stop trying new things.
TRULY! I will forever credit you with helping me realize how much easier it is to come up with the title/logline/blurb BEFORE I begin writing. Totally revolutionized the experience for me. ALSO SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOK TO COME OUT EEEEEK!
Congratulations on hitting 100K. It is so important to be open to trying new things, playing with ways of doing things. It helps to keep things fresh. It also allows us to see if something else works better for us. I love how you are willing to share these writing adventures with us.
"Done, done, done! I achieved!!!!" Fantastic!!! Doing a happy dance for you. That is freaking awesome. Congratulations!!!! You are a rock star!!! Love you!
A Basement Brimming with Bodies is an EXCELLENT title! 😍 That cake looks delicious! What kind was it? You have a very detailed outline! Or I guess multiple outlines for many projects! I admire you for that as someone who doesn’t outline novels (or at least not well, lol). I just do bullet points and pantsing. Congratulations on reaching 100K! 🥳🎉
Absolutely I stole this idea from Zara Hoffman!! She was the first person I ever heard talk about it and had the exact same "wait this is GENIUS." Highly recommend giving it a try! :)
Congratulations on 100k!! This has got me so motivated to organise and outline all my stories 😁 Also wavy hair and those earrings look so good on you! ❤
Kate, I love that you use the song I shot the sheriff for inspiration lol That made me LOL from this vlog! You're inspiring me to write and keep going with my edits! I'm going to possibly try and get back into vlogging. I keep taking my videos down. I'm just not sure if I'm ready yet! But, we will see what happens! Thanks for always inspiring me!
11:17 Me: "wait what spot on the glasses..... i can't see a spot on your glasses" *gets lost thinking about how gross my glasses probably look on camera, stops listening to the video for 30 seconds and has to rewind* 😂
LOLOL! I swear, I didn't notice it AT ALL while I was recording and then immediately spotted it while editing. I'm sure I've had spots on them before and never noticed, but then it was the ONLY thing I could focus on for MINUTES OF FOOTAGE bahaha. I now realize my comment had the opposite effect bahahah.
This is fantastic!! I've had a story idea floating around in my head for a long time. I know I won't be a great writer... YET! Because I've never practiced! Maybe I should try it out!
well, I just finished act 2 of my book, and for ages I thought act 3 would fill itself out on its own. It did not. I need to sit down and fully rethink that part of the outline so yes. Perfect timing as always
VIK! Yeah I fully understand that. I've had that happen to me so many times. Sometimes re-outlining after you have some of the draft already figured out is incredibly helpful though! I'll keep my fingers crossed your brainstorming is fruitful. You got this!
this sounds so fun! maybe my new year's writing resolution should be to try outlining haha... i've always found it difficult since when i actually write, the scenes don't always match and i end up wasting my outline anyway, but it's certainly been easier for me to figure out where to start or go when i do have Something to go off of... i don't remember if i told you when i finished the second draft (first rewrite) of my novel, but i do remember you told me to tell you and celebrate it haha -- i did so a few months ago and sent it off to a handful of people who wanted to read it! none of them have gotten back to me yet about their thoughts or if they've even read it, but i don't want to bother them about it either... but i want to write. i wonder if i should bite the bullet and start working on something else or if i should swallow my anxiety and just give them a poke... haha. happy new year regardless! i hope it's fruitful for all of us writers.
My main project this year involves a take on “saving/freeing” dragons 😂. I’m planning on setting up my own to be written list and brain dump document - such a clever and simple idea!
YESSSSS, great minds! :) And I learned about the To Be Written list from Zara Hoffman -- absolutely a game changer for me to organize them all in one place!
😭 in having maybe one idea that could be developed like this. 😄 I love reverse outlining, though, since I'm such a pantser. But I wrote 360+K words last year with that method soooo 🤷♀ This year's revision hell is coming, however. Good job on hitting your goal!
HOLY SHIT!!!! 360,000+ is increeeddddiiibbbllleeee!!!! I also love a good reverse outline. Despite the intensity of my outlines now, I still find I need to do another after I've written the first draft. It strikes the perfect balance between letting me run free if I need AND acting as a good guide post for revisions. Sending you all the goo luck for this year. YOU GOT IT!
@@KateCavanaugh 💜 Thank you! I was kinda of astonished when I added it all up. But I finished a 250K word novel (oops), wrote an entire second novel (180K words), and started a third. It was definitely the Year of Drafting, making this the Year of Editing. I did the 100KQ4 and ended up crushing it with 118K words, so I carried it into Q1 to finish this book. 😁
Ooh what a good idea to outline projects- I just create a blurb doc where I write down little snippets of dialogue and world building but outlining them sounds like such a great way to organize- and motivate me to write them whenever the mood strikes me
I loved this video! Admittedly I’m in the middle of drafting scenes necessary for revision to happen, but this is tempting for some other projects. Maybe even some fictional podcast ideas? But I also have a giant ‘writing ideas’ document lmao. Maybe this will get me to cut down on that by making new scrivener documents for the more advanced ones. Hmmm. Also, I loved your earrings for December 31st, so gorgeous.
Oh my god, 😊😆😀 I never heard of it before but I have been doing it all this month. I was tired of the new idea clouding my mind causing me to not to progress on my story.
This might be the answer to all my writing problems (at least to the ones I have right now). I have decided to outline several peojects (my outlines are usually pretty short) until the end of January, so when I an visiting Amsterdam in Feburary I have decided on a project to draft!
YESSSSSS that sounds like such a good plan!! OMG I hope you have so much fun in Amsterdam. I'd love to visit there someday!! (Also lolol to the "at least the ones I have right now." So true. Writing is just ever evolving problems, only we're the ones who created them bahaha.)
I have to outline right before i first draft so that the tempo is still rolling and fresh in my mind for when i draft, otherwise this would be my new favorite thing to do haha
Oooh, that's very fair! It'll be interesting, since this is the first time I've done something like this. But I often leave projects in all sorts of states, so I'm hoping it's just an easy re-read and I'll fall back into it. Fingers crossed!
I never heard of the outline a thon, but it sounds like a good idea. Maybe I do that for all the short stories I want to write this year. When it comes to outlining there are projects where it's easy to do the planning and then there are the projects where I always run towards a wall. 😂 It's interesting how you organize your story ideas. I stopped using Scrivener and moved completely to Notion. Currently I'm working on a database with all my 400+ ideas, sorted by year, genre and what kind of book it will be (a novel, novella, short stories or web comics).
FOUR HUNDRED PLUS!!! That's so cool! I like doing it this way in Scrivener and then taking my outline and breaking it into the individual chapters/scene cards. It makes sense for my brain. But I am VERY intrigued by everyone who's been using Notion. That sounds really cool, I'll have to check it out for that. I mostly use it to organize release schedules and things.
@KateCavanaugh I started with my idea list ten years ago (oh wow, time flies so fast). Tried to write down everything I could. 🙈 At the beginning I also used Notion for daily tasks. No everything is there.
RIGHT! As soon as Elaine mentioned she was doing it, it was like a record scratch. "Hold up, wait, what is this???" Such a clever idea. And so fun, too! 10/10! Definitely let me know when you try it out! :)
For the cake tin: before you open the clam stick a knife in between the edge and the cake and drag it around until you went around the tin completely. It will reduce the chances if the cake splitting.
Yessssss, thank you! That's what I ended up doing after I'd already made the split bahaha. Silly me. Will definitely add that as step one of the process next time! :)
How to you keep your outlines from getting super messy in their document? I don’t have scrivener so I can’t separate each section and my word documents tend to get super disorganised and rambly!!
Watching this after writing 1300 words in a 90 minute sprint (Thanks, Sarah Cahill!) and breaking to do a little clean up around the Airbnb. I love this idea! I have so many story ideas too! Hmm...
@ I really hope that she gets better soon, but she seems to be doing well with her story. I can’t believe that we both missed her starting today’s stream! Lol. 😂
I found this video by accident. But I found it ironic. I write nonfiction books. And I had 3 book ideas that I wanted to write this year. So during the last 2 weeks of December of last year I completely outlined all 3 of them. I even wrote more than 3500 words in one book, 3400 words in another. None are done yet. But that was a lot accomplished in only a 2-3 week period.
OH MY GOD. I don't even know how that happened!!!! I swear I had an entire 4 minutes at the end summarizing my thoughts. What the heck!! Bahahaahahah. I'm gonna have to go see what happened. That's SO funny.
Wait this is wild!!! I literally have it in my iMovie at 36 minutes AND the final footage that got exported is 36 minutes but then RUclips is 31:49?!?! THERE'S A MYSTERY ABOOT. Oh well, at least it ended at the perfect spot anyways! Hahahahaha.
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OUTLINE-A-THON! OUTLINE-A-THON! OUTLINE-A-THON!
SUCH A GOOD IDEA. THANK YOU FOR SHARING ELAINE!!! :)
As someone who enjoys outlining, you know I was LIVING for this haha. I totally find it easier to write a blurb/synopsis/summary/pitch before writing the book - so much easier to summarise when the unimportant details can't distract you because you haven't even thought of them yet! Also all the food you made in this looked so yum. CONGRATS ON MAKING 100k!! 🧡 P.S I've just finished my first 'big' crochet project (a soft toy as opposed to granny squares and stitch practice).
AHHH PHOEBE HOORAY!!! So happy for you finishing your first big crochet project, I LOVE THAT. What kind of soft toy was it!??!
@@KateCavanaugh A 'polar' teddy bear in a striped jumper and bobble hat 🥰
@@PhoebeWritesFiction AHHHHH it sounds SO cute!!!! 🐻❄
Perfect timing! I just sat down to write for today. I saw a meme about how January is a trial month and that February 1st was the real start of the year. I've been really tired this week so I'm rolling with that!
Absolutely love that! Play around and ease yourself into the year with January.
I am stealing this! I do something a little similar by letting myself outline/play with the shiny new idea, but all these projects are scattered. I love the idea of having them all organized in one place. Writing's so cool, man. You never stop trying new things.
TRULY! I will forever credit you with helping me realize how much easier it is to come up with the title/logline/blurb BEFORE I begin writing. Totally revolutionized the experience for me. ALSO SO EXCITED FOR YOUR BOOK TO COME OUT EEEEEK!
@@KateCavanaugh I'm just so happy you have something that works for you!! AND THANK YOUUUUU. It'll be Feb. 4th before I know it 😭😭❤❤
Congratulations on hitting 100K. It is so important to be open to trying new things, playing with ways of doing things. It helps to keep things fresh. It also allows us to see if something else works better for us. I love how you are willing to share these writing adventures with us.
"Done, done, done! I achieved!!!!" Fantastic!!! Doing a happy dance for you. That is freaking awesome. Congratulations!!!!
You are a rock star!!! Love you!
A Basement Brimming with Bodies is an EXCELLENT title! 😍
That cake looks delicious! What kind was it?
You have a very detailed outline! Or I guess multiple outlines for many projects! I admire you for that as someone who doesn’t outline novels (or at least not well, lol). I just do bullet points and pantsing.
Congratulations on reaching 100K! 🥳🎉
I love the idea of a Scrivener document for “to be written” ideas. You’re so organized! 😊
Absolutely I stole this idea from Zara Hoffman!! She was the first person I ever heard talk about it and had the exact same "wait this is GENIUS." Highly recommend giving it a try! :)
Congratulations on 100k!! This has got me so motivated to organise and outline all my stories 😁 Also wavy hair and those earrings look so good on you! ❤
Thank youuuu! :) Good luck with your organization and outlining, I hope you have so much fun with it!!
an outline-a -thon sounds so fun! I should definitely try that out (and clean up the 15+ chaotic notes on my phone titled "IDEA") 😂
Kate, I love that you use the song I shot the sheriff for inspiration lol That made me LOL from this vlog! You're inspiring me to write and keep going with my edits! I'm going to possibly try and get back into vlogging. I keep taking my videos down. I'm just not sure if I'm ready yet! But, we will see what happens! Thanks for always inspiring me!
You are so inspiring! ❤ I need to finish my outline and now I feel like I can do it! 😊
YOU GOT THIS! :)
Great video! ❤
Oooo I love this! I might play around with this idea at the end of each quarter? Try and prep for the next quarter
Ooooh that’s such a great idea!! I might join you in that!
@ this is my first year trying to separate things quarterly
11:17 Me: "wait what spot on the glasses..... i can't see a spot on your glasses" *gets lost thinking about how gross my glasses probably look on camera, stops listening to the video for 30 seconds and has to rewind* 😂
LOLOL! I swear, I didn't notice it AT ALL while I was recording and then immediately spotted it while editing. I'm sure I've had spots on them before and never noticed, but then it was the ONLY thing I could focus on for MINUTES OF FOOTAGE bahaha. I now realize my comment had the opposite effect bahahah.
I still can’t see it so I wouldn’t worry too much abt it! 😅
OK BUT I DONT HAVE TIME TO DO THIS RN BUT ITS EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT WRITING!!! WHYYYYY
This is fantastic!! I've had a story idea floating around in my head for a long time. I know I won't be a great writer... YET! Because I've never practiced! Maybe I should try it out!
well, I just finished act 2 of my book, and for ages I thought act 3 would fill itself out on its own. It did not. I need to sit down and fully rethink that part of the outline
so yes. Perfect timing as always
VIK! Yeah I fully understand that. I've had that happen to me so many times. Sometimes re-outlining after you have some of the draft already figured out is incredibly helpful though! I'll keep my fingers crossed your brainstorming is fruitful. You got this!
this sounds so fun! maybe my new year's writing resolution should be to try outlining haha... i've always found it difficult since when i actually write, the scenes don't always match and i end up wasting my outline anyway, but it's certainly been easier for me to figure out where to start or go when i do have Something to go off of...
i don't remember if i told you when i finished the second draft (first rewrite) of my novel, but i do remember you told me to tell you and celebrate it haha -- i did so a few months ago and sent it off to a handful of people who wanted to read it! none of them have gotten back to me yet about their thoughts or if they've even read it, but i don't want to bother them about it either... but i want to write. i wonder if i should bite the bullet and start working on something else or if i should swallow my anxiety and just give them a poke... haha. happy new year regardless! i hope it's fruitful for all of us writers.
I would recommen to give them a pock. You have worked so hard on this project, do not let it go!
My main project this year involves a take on “saving/freeing” dragons 😂. I’m planning on setting up my own to be written list and brain dump document - such a clever and simple idea!
YESSSSS, great minds! :) And I learned about the To Be Written list from Zara Hoffman -- absolutely a game changer for me to organize them all in one place!
😭 in having maybe one idea that could be developed like this. 😄 I love reverse outlining, though, since I'm such a pantser. But I wrote 360+K words last year with that method soooo 🤷♀ This year's revision hell is coming, however. Good job on hitting your goal!
HOLY SHIT!!!! 360,000+ is increeeddddiiibbbllleeee!!!! I also love a good reverse outline. Despite the intensity of my outlines now, I still find I need to do another after I've written the first draft. It strikes the perfect balance between letting me run free if I need AND acting as a good guide post for revisions. Sending you all the goo luck for this year. YOU GOT IT!
@@KateCavanaugh 💜 Thank you! I was kinda of astonished when I added it all up. But I finished a 250K word novel (oops), wrote an entire second novel (180K words), and started a third. It was definitely the Year of Drafting, making this the Year of Editing. I did the 100KQ4 and ended up crushing it with 118K words, so I carried it into Q1 to finish this book. 😁
Ooh what a good idea to outline projects- I just create a blurb doc where I write down little snippets of dialogue and world building but outlining them sounds like such a great way to organize- and motivate me to write them whenever the mood strikes me
I loved this video! Admittedly I’m in the middle of drafting scenes necessary for revision to happen, but this is tempting for some other projects. Maybe even some fictional podcast ideas? But I also have a giant ‘writing ideas’ document lmao. Maybe this will get me to cut down on that by making new scrivener documents for the more advanced ones. Hmmm. Also, I loved your earrings for December 31st, so gorgeous.
Oh my god, 😊😆😀
I never heard of it before but I have been doing it all this month. I was tired of the new idea clouding my mind causing me to not to progress on my story.
Outline a ton sounds like a good way to start the year let's go!!
HECK YES!! YOU GOT THIS! Let me know how you enjoy it!! :)
congrats on hitting 100k before 2025! I'm also glad that your series is coming together it sounds great.
Thank you so much! :)
This might be the answer to all my writing problems (at least to the ones I have right now).
I have decided to outline several peojects (my outlines are usually pretty short) until the end of January, so when I an visiting Amsterdam in Feburary I have decided on a project to draft!
YESSSSSS that sounds like such a good plan!! OMG I hope you have so much fun in Amsterdam. I'd love to visit there someday!!
(Also lolol to the "at least the ones I have right now." So true. Writing is just ever evolving problems, only we're the ones who created them bahaha.)
I have to outline right before i first draft so that the tempo is still rolling and fresh in my mind for when i draft, otherwise this would be my new favorite thing to do haha
Oooh, that's very fair! It'll be interesting, since this is the first time I've done something like this. But I often leave projects in all sorts of states, so I'm hoping it's just an easy re-read and I'll fall back into it. Fingers crossed!
I never heard of the outline a thon, but it sounds like a good idea. Maybe I do that for all the short stories I want to write this year.
When it comes to outlining there are projects where it's easy to do the planning and then there are the projects where I always run towards a wall. 😂
It's interesting how you organize your story ideas. I stopped using Scrivener and moved completely to Notion. Currently I'm working on a database with all my 400+ ideas, sorted by year, genre and what kind of book it will be (a novel, novella, short stories or web comics).
FOUR HUNDRED PLUS!!! That's so cool! I like doing it this way in Scrivener and then taking my outline and breaking it into the individual chapters/scene cards. It makes sense for my brain. But I am VERY intrigued by everyone who's been using Notion. That sounds really cool, I'll have to check it out for that. I mostly use it to organize release schedules and things.
@KateCavanaugh I started with my idea list ten years ago (oh wow, time flies so fast). Tried to write down everything I could. 🙈
At the beginning I also used Notion for daily tasks. No everything is there.
I’ve never done this as a dedicated thing but I love the idea! Must try one day!
RIGHT! As soon as Elaine mentioned she was doing it, it was like a record scratch. "Hold up, wait, what is this???" Such a clever idea. And so fun, too! 10/10! Definitely let me know when you try it out! :)
congratulations on hitting the goal!
Thank youuuuu!
For the cake tin: before you open the clam stick a knife in between the edge and the cake and drag it around until you went around the tin completely. It will reduce the chances if the cake splitting.
Yessssss, thank you! That's what I ended up doing after I'd already made the split bahaha. Silly me. Will definitely add that as step one of the process next time! :)
Something about you writing with a slice of cake to eat was so deliciously decadent looking!
How to you keep your outlines from getting super messy in their document? I don’t have scrivener so I can’t separate each section and my word documents tend to get super disorganised and rambly!!
How did your Tiramisu turn out? I just had to know because I love me some Tiramisu!😝😝
Watching this after writing 1300 words in a 90 minute sprint (Thanks, Sarah Cahill!) and breaking to do a little clean up around the Airbnb. I love this idea! I have so many story ideas too! Hmm...
DO IT, KAT!!! And hooray for getting so many words on Sarah's stream! :) Can't wait to see how her experiment goes.
@ I really hope that she gets better soon, but she seems to be doing well with her story. I can’t believe that we both missed her starting today’s stream! Lol. 😂
how do you come up with your titles? They're always so cool!
Hurray! first comment! I'll be back after I watch
🏆 thanks Regina!! 💛
I found this video by accident. But I found it ironic. I write nonfiction books. And I had 3 book ideas that I wanted to write this year. So during the last 2 weeks of December of last year I completely outlined all 3 of them. I even wrote more than 3500 words in one book, 3400 words in another. None are done yet. But that was a lot accomplished in only a 2-3 week period.
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That ending of the video. 🤣🤣
OH MY GOD. I don't even know how that happened!!!! I swear I had an entire 4 minutes at the end summarizing my thoughts. What the heck!! Bahahaahahah. I'm gonna have to go see what happened. That's SO funny.
Wait this is wild!!! I literally have it in my iMovie at 36 minutes AND the final footage that got exported is 36 minutes but then RUclips is 31:49?!?! THERE'S A MYSTERY ABOOT.
Oh well, at least it ended at the perfect spot anyways! Hahahahaha.
@KateCavanaugh
Oh no!
But at least it gave great comedic timing!
I really enjoy your videos, Kate. When is your birthday?
Do you knlw what is the status of Meridian Maps Book series?
Ooooh, I haven't worked on them in a while!! The plus side, the overarching series is outlined. :) But they're in my "back burner" area for now.
Is that a woobles advent calendar in the back I see 😂
Loooooool yes, from like a year ago I think! Bahaha.