John Grisham on How He Outlines His Chapters While Writing

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Did you expect this sort of writing strategy from John Grisham? Let us know in the comments!

[tdd]

I feel seen. I took my brilliant idea and 130, 000 words later my story is lost at sea. I am retroactively outlining it to get it back on track.

[jflsdknf]

Good tips. My writing improved dramatically once I started outlining. When you actually know where you're going the words flow so much easier.

[jeannestark]

I totally understand about putting together a plot because a lot of times a lot of lawyers they have to know what they’re gonna do before they get in a court so I understand the translation of that from Royal life Court to riding life

[Gil]

True. I write my outline for the entire book, then make notes before I write each chapter.

[hugosaurus]

If anyone's advice is worth following it's John Grisham, the guy gets out so many novels you'd think he's got a grudge against trees. Absolute GOAT

[Musicienne-DAB]

Excellent: I've hard of John Grisham since I was a kid, and I never got round to reading his books! Thanks for this It now reminds me to get his works.

[derekdelacruz]

Great advice. Make a lot of sense. Outlining is essential for a well planned book. One of my favorite writers.

[alexpianocorner-zm]

Thank you maestro Grisham for your very inspired stories. I think the stories go in the wright direction hot to show the society of judges and crimes. It is almost authentic.

[MonkeManCan]

Will start doing THIS! Now— gotta go back. Thank you.

[andyontheinternet]

I might try this with my next book. My first book was 100% pantsing. My 2nd had a basic 3 page outline. Next time, I'll try a detailed out.

[NoName-jqtj]

This is an interesting short video I’m actual in the middle of reading a book about plotting your book which fundamentally is about planing your book prior to writing it. In the past I’ve started a book. I’ve started the writing process without any prior planning & the results are absolutely dismal because you don’t finish the manuscript so hence today I have a number of manuscripts dormant in their various stages of completion simply because I was unaware of why you should plot & plan the actually process. My approach was to simply allow the creative process to take over without planning. This was complete fallacy.

[Lalitha-jtge]

🎉🙏🌅👍🚢 that's a ✈️run way- print out draft like ! Help to finish the goal 🥅 🎉

[GLucas]

This method is opposite Stephen King's who doesn't outline and does not know how his novels will end. Two great writers doing things totally different from each other.

[m.f.]

Surely there’s a messy draft before the outline. Otherwise, where’s the knowledge come from of what’s going to happen in each chapter?

[queenmysaelsheikhofsudan]

The content page is best outline if you are writing non fiction. 😊

[BlacKnightRising]

I'm more 'seat-of-the-pants style writing, outlines take too much time quite frankly Grisham just admitted that indirectly, I have a note-book where I mark-off what I'm doing but to write an outline? just use that time to finish the chapters and the book in record time instead of taking months more to do so