How to Outline the Scenes in Your Ancestor’s Story



In this video, we’re going to delve into why you should embrace outlining your scenes but also some of the basics of outlining a scene in your ancestor’s story. We’ll guide you through the various elements you should identify in advance of writing the scene and also introduce you to a couple of tools that make it easy and fun.

If you missed last week’s Scene vs Summary video you’ll find it here.

Here’s the three tools I reference in this video

Scrivener

Trello

Plottr

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