would you use this method for writing?

WRITING HERE EVERY day led me, at some point, to look for productivity methods and apps that would optimize my work, time, and decision-making process. I found editorial calendars and lists to be my favorite ways to organize my content (and my life, actually).

So, at the end of the month, I sit in front of an app called @craftsdoc, and I make a list of days I post here and the topics I wanna write about. For example, this post looks like this in my content plan: “Mo 31 — editorial calendar for writing books?”.

I mean… urgh, I just gave away an important part of this post but let’s just move on and pretend you haven’t read that… ok?

So… I do that, and I list a few things like a short outline of the post and comments, sometimes links, or reference and that’s it. But one day I thought, “hey, I use this method every month for planning my content and I use that every day to know what I’m going to write in my captions and blog posts… what if I used the same method to write a book?” That’s what I did. AND IT’S WORKING!

You see, I have this outline for my novel. I know the beats and scenes of the story. I gathered all that, separated particular ideas, scenes, or chapters, and I scheduled writing sessions to write them. So, if today were the first day of my writing project, the first writing session would look a little bit like this: “Mo 31 — morning — write intro monologue where main character starts telling the story.”

My whole outline looks like a huge calendar now. And I know exactly when I will finish my book unless I miss a writing session, which we can talk more about another time.

For now, if you want to try it, do this:

■ draft your outline

■ break it into scenes or ideas

■ schedule writing sessions like appointments

■ turn scenes and ideas into an agenda for each writing session

■ sit and write!

Then tell me if it worked for you… I wanna know if I’m crazy or if I just gave you a cool method that will help you finish that book you’re writing.

☕️ Now… would you use that method in your process? Or do you? And do you create an outline for everything you write?

⁣↓ first seen on @beardbetweenthelines

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by joão • bearded writer reading (@beardbetweenthelines)