Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success

This book is very provocative towards my innate panster nature. That means change is forthcoming. I'm not particularly fond of that since I usually am allergic to change. 4.5/5

As with all of her books, Weiland gives concise and practical advice for an author-in-the-making.

This guidebook takes an empathetic approach to outlining when it's many a writer's dreaded chore. Plenty of story examples demystify each step toward a novel outline. Highly recommended especially for self-proclaimed pantsers.

A bunch of similar stuff from Structuring. Good food for thought. Again nothing groundbreaking but just listening to it made me look at some stuff from a different perspective.

The book had a lot of great tips on why you should be outlining, but in the end I found the practical side of it lacking. Don't get me wrong, its an entertaining read, and Weiland makes a compelling case on why you want to outline, what the benefits are, and what all of the factors of a well rounded outline include (not just the scene list). I had hoped for something a little more in depth about the different toolsets you can use (not just “this is a mind mapping,” but “this is mindmapping - here's how to do it and make it useful for your outline if that strikes you”).