Tag: Book Planning

• I Asked the AI to Teach Me How to Plan a Novel

  

  I’ve often blogged about my struggles surrounding novel planning. It’s become a running joke in my household—one of those things that clearly pointed out the ADHD even before anyone had a hunch that I might have it. I always got so absorbed in figuring out the history of the world, details about characters, or the…

  Yolandie Horak

  February 23, 2026

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• Updated Planning Methods

  

  Planning a novel doesn’t always come easily. As a hybrid planner/pantser and an ADHD’er, I often find myself super excited at the beginning of the planning process, pouring myself into putting every minute detail to paper. Until the impatience sets in, at which point I must write. Once I’ve abandoned the planning, I hurl myself…

  Yolandie Horak

  April 2, 2024

  Writing

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