Outline and Write

Outline

Outline verb - Draw up an outline or sketch for something.

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Write and outline are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Write" instead a verb "Outline".

Nearby Words: outlined, outlining

Write verb - To compose and set down on paper the words of.

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Outline and write are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Outline" instead a verb "Write".

Nearby Words: writing, writer, writ, writable

scene	outline scene	write scene
notes	outline notes	write notes

The creator of Origin Story admits that, while he began with a carefully plotted outline, the story left the outline in the dust in the middle of Chapter Four and that these days, he's writing whatever comes to him to write, as it occurs to him to write it.

Source: Writing by the Seat of Your Pants
In fact, Paul Levitz, Mike Carlin, Archie Goodwin, and even Denny O'Neil helped Dooley write the outline that Marz was forced to fully write.

Source: Scapegoat Creator
While composers during this time would generally write down at least a basic outline for their instrumental parts if they wanted any (leaving the rest to the musicians' discretion), they usually never wrote down any specific orchestrations, even for nonvocal pieces.

Source: Classical Music

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