Creating and Using Outlines in Fiction

SouthWest Writers presents (live and online) Holly Day, who has worked as a freelance writer for over 30 years, with over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories and 40 books and chapbooks, including Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Walking Twin Cities, Stillwater, Minnesota: A Brief History, and Nordeast Minneapolis: A History.

We’ll discuss how learning to create an outline and using an outline to guide your writing helps keep you on track and motivated to finish writing your short stories, from your bare-bones concepts to the final draft. In-class writing includes creating our own brief outlines and some short writing exercises to see how using an outline works in practice.

To Register:
Call the SWW office at 505-830-6034 (Monday–Thursday, 9:00 am–noon) or use the online registration form. Our online payment portal utilizes PayPal, but you’ll be given an option to pay by credit card without signing into PayPal. Cost: members, $20; non-members, $30.