: Re: Should I be able to 'feel' my outline? If I am writing a book, and my primary goal is creating a strong emotion in the reader, should I be able to 'feel' that emotion in the outline phase?

Personally, an outline is the bare bones gist of my story as originally conceived that I then, more or less, stick to as I write the story to stay on track. It lacks depth and emotion as I purposefully don't give it control of my story. But in my head I have whole worlds of ideas about the characters and the story line. As I write, the characters develop, the emotion develops and the story develops. My ideas about who the characters ARE and why they do the things they do changes and grows. The best advice I've ever seen on this is in Stephen King's ON WRITING.

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