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If plotting feels like too heavy an investment, and pantsing often keeps you stuck, a good approach that can help you make progress on your book is loose outlining. A loose outline is like a plot, only that it doesn’t need to be particularly detailed or even complete; it can be a general idea of the main events or just the next part of the book you’re about to write. Having a plan (even a loosely defined one) is a great way of ensuring that you know where your story is going,

Last winter, as I was still busy preparing my debut book for release, I happened to stumble upon a conversation with a local indie-author who owned his own small publishing company and claimed to be an authority in the field. “How many times did you rewrite your book?” he asked me. “Do you mean how many times I edited it?” I replied, explaining that there were multiple rounds of beta-reader feedback, changes, tweaks, and lots of grammar checks with Grammarly. But our guy was