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Duh, An Outline Really Helps

So, I feel like a complete idiot now.  After months of using an outlined to-do list to help me get stuff done during the week, I finally started making a to-do list for my novel.

What do I mean by that?  I mean outlining the novel's events, bulleted and in short sentence form, so that I can keep straight what happens each "day" in the novel.  Plus, I can put editing notes in there like "Hey, I need to rename this place" or "Wow, I need character names liek woah."  LOL

So now I have an itty-bitty text file called "novel notes," in which I have now scripted the next 3 "days" in my novel.  Finally, I might be able to move ahead--part of the reason I was stuck was that I wasn't sure where to go.  As I well know from experience, if you don't have the driving directions printed out, you can get lost very easily.  Fail :P

Now, WHY did I not think of this about 3 million years ago?  *shrug* Who knows?  That's how my brain works these days, apparently.  xD