Savannah Gilbo

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3,356 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 18 Aug

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Fiction Writing Made Easy with Savannah Gilbo | How to Write a Novel & Writing Advice · #255. Student Spotlight: How Grace Draven Learned to Write Faster (Without Sacrificing Quality) · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

We em, you know, we buy a new tool if we need it.

We improve tools, whatever.

And one of those tools I kind of want to dive into is you said, um, so scenes were a big thing for you, the outline uh for a version of an outline that worked for you, and then also fleshing out your antagonist.

Do you want to talk about that a little bit?

Yeah.

And I think like for some listeners, I know that will sound like it's just a craft tool, right?

It's like cr the craft of developing your antagonist.

But what I think Grace will probably see if she hasn't seen already is that when you do this kind of work up front in tandem with the protagonist, you can go faster and you're gonna write a more efficient draft because you're not having to worry about this in revision.

Which I'm sure you've done in the past, Grace.

Like 'cause you said you're like, I don't really think up too much about my antagonist.

Has there ever been a a book where you're like, Oh yeah, I had to add them back in later?

Yeah.

And I think that's what um a lot of writers tend to think when 'cause they're they're probably just like you when they think about an outline, they think about school and they think about the bullet points or the inverted triangle, whatever.

However we learned it, right?

And it's very rigid and structured and flat feeling.

Um, but when I think about process and kind of adding structure to work, I think about it in terms of making some of these foundational decisions up front, like you're talking about.

And in an order that allows you to kind of okay, if if A is true, then B must be true.

And then you can develop these things together, which means you hit the ground or the page.

with so much more ammo and you're ready to, you know, you can pants your way through it at that point if you want, or you can create a more

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