How to write an outline for a book

The easiest way to write an outline is to think of your book as a movie. Movies are made up of scenes. Each scene in a movie would be a chapter in a book. You don’t need a lot of words at this stage of the game. Just a few sentences for each scene, so you can develop it further later. Check out the outline for Deathly Discovery:

One

Sam is in grade school and goes to a park and sits on the bench and a ghostly figure talks to her. She is afraid and doesn’t want to talk to her and puts her earbuds in her ears. The ghostly figure knows she can hear her.

First Line

Sam turned her head towards a female voice and was panic-stricken when she saw a ghostly figure sitting beside her on the bench.

Two

Afraid to run into the ghostly figure she avoids the park. She finally goes to the park and sits on the bench. She is bombarded with voices and ghostly figures surround her. Stop it she yells and tells them to talk to her one at a time. Some ghostly figure who used to be in the army takes over and tells everyone to form a line and take your turn talking to her.

Sorry, that’s all I can give you for now, or I will give the story away.

You get the idea. The story may change as you write it, and that’s okay. So don’t worry about it, that’s what makes writing exciting. The goal here is to give you a starting point and then unleash your imagination and let it flow onto the pages of your next best-selling novel.