The rough draft of the outline is now done. 'Rough' here means all the basic plot threads are in place, I've got the climaxes for Acts I, II, and III set up, and all the sub-plots are tied off (more or less). In quite a few scenes, all I've got is the story values (what changes the character will move through), but as yet I have no idea how that's going to happen.
But the how is always much easier than the value part of a scene. Provided you know the purpose of a scene, the mechanics of it are often simple to arrange.
Two things left now on the outline:
A) Going through and making sure the main events are foreshadowed/mirrored earlier on in the book, and putting in all the plants and clues so that the ending will have a real impact. (Have a look here for how it works.)
B) Filling in the scenes where I only have the changes in the character and not the actual events. And although it'll be relatively easy to do, I want to make sure that the actions mean something symbolically.
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