I am beginning the process how to format an essay. What I actually should say is this: “I’ve never written non-fiction for a magazine or website, and I am not sure how to format it without it being a rambling mess.” Have I completed one? No. Do I have five on my docket to write? Yes. Will I write them? Yes. When will I write them? When I don’t have chapters available or outlined in Bohr’s Bathos for my daily writing.
As some may know, I only like to write when I have detailed outlines available to me. I have a completed master outline available, with the themes, character development, and major events. However, I keep that over arching outline at a high level so I have the flexibility to change the novel as I it choose to change over time. Which, in every manuscript I have written, has allowed the manuscript to become very organic. So, when I write the current block of chapters I have outlined, I have nothing to do until I can outline the next five. That time lapse, has led me to not writing anything for extended periods of time, and therefore, I have decided to use that lull to write essays. Yes, I should read, but I don’t like to read when I am writing as I see it as a possible infection in the tone and voice of the book currently being written.