Writing Tips: Outlining for Genre Fiction and Literary Fiction with Libbie Hawker
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Libbie Hawker writes historical and literary fiction featuring complex characters and rich details of time and place, including an awesome series about ancient Egypt, one of my own obsessions. Libbie is well known in the author community for her books for authors, Gotta Read It, about book descriptions, Take Off Your Pants, about outlining, and Making it in Historical Fiction.
The interview includes:
How long it took Libbie to become a full-time author.
Why deadlines and accountability matter when setting large goals like becoming a full-time author.
The difference between plotting and pantsing and what the three-legged outline is.
On whether outlining makes stories formulaic.
How outlining plays a role in prolific output and where research falls in Libbie’s writing schedule.
Are speed and quality mutually exclusive?
How Libbie plans her writing schedule for the year and decides which projects are indie and which are traditionally published.
Balancing earning a living versus literary work.
On the change in attitude toward an author’s work once decades have passed.
You can find Libbie at www.LibbieHawker.com and on twitter @LibHawker
I love your vids. So nice to see a youtuber with a literary perspective rather than commercialized perspective. I write for the art not the sales. That doesn't mean I don't care about sales. I am grateful everyone someone buys my stories, but I write the stories the way they are not the way that will interest the largest demographic of readers.
What an inspiring conversation! Thank you!
In my thirties and like a light switch I all-of-a-sudden have been bitten by the literary genre (writing it), and so far I've been enjoying working within those amazing halls.
Fantastic! Thank you for interviewing her.
Beautiful interview! Thanks for having her on your show.
My favorite part of this whole interview is how Joanna cracks up at her description of her odd jobs
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for mentioning how well you know your characters. They are supposed to grow anyway. 20 pages leaves little room for it, and I can't write that much without getting two chapters. Too much hems you in and limits growth. Mine blossomed all on their own.
Great interview, growing your body of quality work is solid advice. Hilary Mantel is an amazing writer - Beyond Black is a brilliant novel
Great interview!
I think her name's spelled as Libbie, but I noticed that the title has it spelled differently.
Anyway, I have her e-book, Take Off Your Pants!, and find it's character-centric approach interesting.
This was very inspiring. Cheers!
im not an author. but when i type i type with one finger, so if i was thinking about writing a book it would probably take me twenty years lol.
You can use dictation :)
oooh... I have her first novel and a few more!
oh, nice segue Joanna...
idk Australia is talking about changing copyright laws to 25 years *only* from date of publication. Many, many people are SCREAMING about this. It conflicts with the TPP that they are supposed to sign (that extends copyright) and the reasons for it seem very grey indeed - the publishing industry 'locks up people' who could work in other areas... I think you meant 'employs'
what?
What is the name of the Canadian writer mentioned at about 31:30? Sounded like Natalie Capel but Googling produced only a singer..
Natalie Goldberg?
The Creative Penn, I can’t tell either. It sounded like Jennifer Caphil? But, nothing shows up on Amazon.
Thanks, this is a wonderfully helpful and encouraging interview. Just one note to Joanna: Stephen King did in fact win the National Book Award in 2003, a decision that caused a lot of controversy among "serious" literary people at the time.
Thanks for clarifying and I think he's probably won more now :)
I wonder do these ladies write in Word, or use Ulysses, or Scrivener or.....
So is literary fiction just fiction that doesn't fit into a genre, like The Kite Runner, Life of Pi, American Psycho? Or is American Psycho seen as satire and Life of Pi as fantasy?
Literary fiction is its own genre - just look on amazon :)
Yeah, why don't people write more high fantasy based on ancient Egypt instead of pseudo medieval Europe?
The fantasy I'm writing is based on mediaeval UK and Ming Dynasty although I've found along the way that the Aztecs and have some stuff I can use ... I'm British and used to Mediaeval European stuff so that's what first springs to mind. Maybe that's the case with other fantasy writers, too. The Ming Dynasty is because I find Chinese history fascinating. Maybe it's just what you're used to and what you're interested in until something else comes along for inspiration
The "Literary authors" might write less literary material under a different pen name. IJS.
Absolutely. A great example of John Banville, who also writes crime as Benjamin Black. www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/22/john-banville-benjamin-black-author
The host is a brilliant writer.
By contrast, Libbie Hawker’s grammar- is embarrassing. Anyone one, of us could, write 130,000 words -in a month, if: we didn’t, care for grammar, punctuation, sentence structure; see-for yourself, her books - are, available on Amazon. Yikes!