Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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With 7 days until my outline is due to my editor for critique, can we finish the outline and widdle it down from 17K to 10k in only 10 days? Let's find out! 😂

I am outlining a multi-POV book using Save the Cat, The Anatomy of Story, and Romancing the beat as my structure guides. This video gets into how I'm delineating the different narrative threads as well as getting all my materials together for the outline critique!

See my actual outline: open.substack.com/pub/nicolewilbur/p/i-wrote-a-17000-word-outline?r=1odtbd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Get ready for a 5 Day Frenzy next week, new video every dy at 9am as I kick-off my Brandon Sanderson lecture Recap & Discussion series: youtu.be/NT36H7UIq9c

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