I've been working on a couple of story line ideas and I have a decent notion of what I want to do with them, but I have been wondering how to organize better. It's one thing to write a little essay and just let the creative muse take me along as I write, but it's another thing entirely (for me anyway) to attempt a much larger effort knowing it will take a lot longer to fill out. I haven't taken creative writing (or so help me if I have it's been so long that I don't remember a lick) so I'm trying to piece this together as I go.
I'm not concerned about all this taking time. Time to work on these projects is that one thing I have an abundance of (yes yes I know how fortunate I am, thanks). What does concern me is efficiency. If I were a super hero, my power would be organization and my kryptonite would be poor efficiency. Gah! I deplore the notion of wasting effort. So, anyway, I spend a little time each week (maybe a few hours) looking around at other blogs that write about writing and it's helped give me a little direction.
Today I'm thinking about outlines and how in some of my stuff a detailed outline is sort of naturally coming about yet in others the outline is superfluous. I'm trying not to dwell on it too much, but it distracts me.