Process

Reverse outline

You might say: after-the-fact outline

An outline made after drafting: one line per part for its main point. Gaps, repeats and weak order show up at once.

What it does

Makes the draft’s real structure visible.

Ask

What does each chapter change?

Trouble

Chapters where nothing changes, or the same beat twice.

Sources

1. Oregon State University Writing Center, Reverse Outlining, “How to create a reverse outline”When you reverse outline, you identify the main ideas from each paragraph of your paper in order to highlight the structure and organization.

Use it on your project

teardown-apply: hold "Reverse outline" (reverse-outline) from the teardown at https://teardownatlas.com/fiction-writing/ against my project

Paste it into a coding agent that has the teardown skills.

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