Outlining in Reverse By AARON HAMBURGER

I found this to be an extremely interesting article posted to the New York Times. Aaron Hamburger is a professional who writes stories for a living and in this article he discusses how he believes writing works best for him. When he writes a story he just writes it. No outline. However, once he has finished the writing he goes back and outlines the piece afterwards. In this way he avoids human nature assuming that his writing is perfect in the moment. Hamburger is really just reviewing his own work and is attempting to create a credible outline to describe his story. In this way the parts that are too over dramatic or left undeveloped become more obvious because he already knows where the story will go from there. While I cannot and will not claim to find the "best" way to write, I will say that this seems like a very good idea to me. By using this train of thought the writer assumes that there will be corrections before they finish the piece and can then develop the story better since they know what they want to develop. If you would care to read the article yourself I've embedded the link in the title.