Quotes About Outline

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

There are four elements to our passage, and they need to be put in outline form perhaps to see how this passage is put together: First, the claim of fulfillment (5:17). Second, an elucidation of the claim (5:18). Third, the consequences of the elucidated claim (5:19). Fourth, an elucidation of the consequences (5:20).

As they moved to push off the boat, a loud squawk sounded near at hand. The people pulled up short in time see the outline of a seagull fly past, the bird chattering wildly. Before anyone could speak, another bird took flight from the palapa. This bird, far larger than the first, passed overhead as a dark apparition. The big bird made no sound, save the gentle whoosh from its massive wings.

When I opened the door to her I felt like a child who believes itself lost on a swarming street and suddenly sees that all-solving outline, that indispensable displacement of air.

A-B-D-C-E structure of a story, an acronym for Action-Background-Development-Conflict-Ending.

a finely shaped head.

Rehearsing at home for tomorrow's CSI cameo, "face down dead body without a chalk outline." Maid screams. Wife calls lawyer, then 911.

At the mall. Think I'll do some rehearsing. Lie on sidewalk, get into "dead guy" character. Quite hard to do without chalk outline.

That was, in writing the 'Twilight' script I had about five weeks to write that. I'd taken about a month to write the outline and then it was slam into a script and write it down fast because the writer's strike was looming.

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

I have a recognizable silhouette.

The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.

I don't quite have a plan, but I think now I sort of have a plan for how to make a plan for coming up with a plan.

The truth is that you do forget people. When you conjure them up, long after they have gone, you can't recall the essence of them, just the outline.

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

For 'Boxers & Saints,' I started by reading a couple of articles on the Internet, then writing a really rough outline, then getting more hardcore into the research. I went to a university library once a week for a year, year and a half.

SALVAGE To leave behind An outline, which then Becomes form. Held up, It is called beauty For the ability to contain What we did not know We wanted to know.

Aunt Ada was most emphatically one of the Substances not Included in the Outline.

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.