Idea: Try making every bullet of your outline wrong

I hate outlining stories, but recently I had an idea that seemed like a fun exercise to try. The idea is to write the outline, then make it wrong. I haven't tried it yet. So first you write your outline and let it be garbage. Let it be

When rereading a story draft for editing, write down what's in your head about the scene

Do you forget to specify the setting when writing a scene? Consider checking for that in editing. Sounds obvious, and it works. I found myself doing this the other day while rereading a story I'd written a while back. I would underline, among other things, the point where

A weekly writing review

One possibility beyond a weekly (fiction) writing habit is a weekly writing review. I tried doing one yesterday and it seemed like a good idea. I took stock of the ten or so most recent story drafts I had sitting around and decided, arbitrarily because of time constraints, that I

Beyond a daily writing habit

I show up to write fiction every day. That's the first habit to build. There's lots of writing online about getting to this point. I wonder: What's next? I write something every day — great. It's necessary. What's next? What'

Writing from an image prompt by focusing on the details

I've written from about a dozen image prompts. I found it infuriating at first, because nothing naturally seemed to arise—I didn't always feel "inspired" even when I liiked an image. But after a while, I found ways of making sense of images as