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Outlines vary in how much text they cover; some people might write a multi-page outline for the same content for which another would write: Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy goes to mad-s...
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2019-12-08T04:08:08Z (almost 5 years ago)
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Outlines vary in how much text they cover; some people might write a multi-page outline for the same content for which another would write: > Boy meets girl. > Boy loses girl. > Boy goes to mad-scientist school and builds a new girl. So the only way to know how _your_ outlines map to word count is to take samples. Compare your previous outlines to word counts of the resulting stories and see if there's a pattern. If you don't have previous outlines, you're going to need to experiment. Try outlining one section (say, a few chapters -- whatever forms a logical sub-story for you), writing the story, and then using that to approximate the rest based on a full outline.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-03-26T01:07:17Z (over 9 years ago)
Original score: 3