#and periodically rearranging the bullet points into more organized 'finalized' points to pull from

[iamaslutforjatp]

If anyone ever wants to know what my writing process is like: I have the first 3 scenes of my fic fully outlined. The first scene's outline is >700 words, the second scene's outline is >1400 words, and the third scene's outline is >800 words.

Their. Outlines.

I know plenty of fic writers whose chapters - or entire fics - are 1.4k words! And that's how long my one scene's outline is!

. . .

To be fair, I think some writers might be more inclined to call what I do at this stage a zero draft rather than an outline. But I find calling it a draft puts too much pressure on it. I don't go into it planning to outline in that much detail, I just go into it planning on writing a paragraph, maybe two, of what happens, but as I'm typing I include whatever basic details I have so I can remember them when I go to write, and a lot of the time it turns into this person does this thing, that person has that reaction, this other person says 'xyz', the room is laid out like this, these people are present in the room doing xyz while persons a b and c are absent for d e and f reasons, person x feels this way over what person y says leading them to say 'blah blah blah' etc etc and suddenly I have a couple hundred words walking through the scene step by step.

And sometimes I don't know many details yet while other times I know a lot including actual snippets of dialogue and layouts of rooms and what specific characters are wearing, so they vary in length quite a bit, and I'll add things if I think of it, move things around and adjust as needed based on what comes out while outlining the next, etc.

Does anyone else have outlines that get out of hand like this?