Most manuscripts never make it past the 40% mark, because writers tend to make outlines in the form of a list. Instead of a summary of what will happen in the next chapter, they should be focused on what will connect the scenes. Without direction, writers usually wind up feeling self-critical and unmotivated.
An Outline from us is a causal chain. The way each link in the chain follows the previous one is how you can sense each of the chapters in the book without spending 6 months to write it.
Structure builds a story. There is a level of creativity in choosing where to save a big reveal in the plot, and choosing to save it until a reader has made a gaffe in forming their opinion is prime example. In the outline, this choice is made, or it is not made at all. Two different stories are made out of one given premise when two different people choose to implement that premise with different emphases.
Generated outlines identify events. Chapter four shows travel to the city; chapter five makes an acquaintance. There is nothing in the sequence that connects any of the subsequent events, so you may delete any two chapters and the rest of the drafting writer will continue to get stuck in the same place.
The writer agrees whatever ending you have. They then work backwards from that ending because a structured outline tends to wander. Each construct is represented as the cause and effect pair. So the joins are apparent. This gives the prospect to argue the points before the prose is even begun.
What do outlines do? We could ask what you want to do with one. Selling one would require a two page pitch outline. A twenty page working outline would include scene by scene notes for your own draft. A brief for ghostwriting outlines has a word count goal for each chapter. We need to know which one you want first.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical story outline | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitch outline | 1,200 | $120 | $1.20 | $121.20 |
| Full novel outline | 4,000 | $400 | $4 | $404 |
| Series outline | 8,000 | $800 | $8 | $808 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
We match the brief to a writer who has already worked in that subject area. If you have worked with an Articled writer before and want them again, name them and we will check their availability first.
Up to 3 days. The writer has to read around the subject before writing it, so we quote honestly rather than promising an hour. If your deadline is tighter, say so in the brief and we will tell you before you pay whether we can meet it.
That is usually the case. Since the outline is yours, you can edit it or disregard half of it and give it to another writer. If you are going to draft from it, ask for the working version and not the pitch version.
Good, and this is the best possible time to disagree. It costs a revision to change an outline ending, and it costs months to change an ending on a manuscript. Both revisions are available within fourteen days of the delivery of the manuscript.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
My voicemails have bordered on the rambly side while my sentences have been fragmented. Your speech has referenced four of my voicemails, and you even quoted them verbatim. Granted, you didn’t even touch the other voicemails and sentences. This blatant disregard is how you should prioritize and frankly is the ratio you should have.
For my dad’s eightieth, I wanted him to have a short story written based on an old famliy vacation from 1974. I was not expecting a literary masterpiece since I just needed something to read to the family after dinner. However, there is a part where he breaks a deckchair and I didn’t even include that and it is just perfect.
The tribute was heartfelt, but came close to ten minutes when I delivered it (I was supposed to stick to six). I removed it a night before because there wasn’t time to edit. Undoubtedly, it was my fault for putting it off. The words, however, were just right.
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