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- noun computing A
software system fororganizing text into ahierarchy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His editorial tool, an outliner, is working with WordPress, and knock wood, praise Murphy, he’ll be updating that blog, and we’ll be archiving the original blog.
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I guess what Is a concern, and admittidly a selfish one, is a jordanesque type of event that stops the author from finishing the series since George is not an "outliner".
In Defense of George R. R. Martin - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009
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Canada is a bit of an outliner here since they are a rather liberal country and the other two liberal countries do worst.
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The US is a notrious outliner compared to the rest of the world insofar as she lacks in every other thinkable category of lifing standard compared to gdp like child mortality, life expectancy or working hours.
Matthew Yglesias » The United States Has Always Been Rich 2010
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I am an outliner for both fiction and non-fiction.
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Copy and paste your text into the outliner (or whatever) and keep your notes and research organized.
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If that were true, that entity would be quite an outliner as sucesfull big active investor.
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For better or worse I am an outliner (worse, Stephen King would say, and does, in his otherwise inspirational ON WRITING).
Joseph Gangemi discusses the story behind his first book, Inamorata 2010
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So, to sum it up, I'm more of an organic, mystical writer than a methodical outliner.
Writing Question: Creating a Plot odysseyworkshop 2009
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When it comes to plotting, I'm a planner--an outliner.
Karen Dionne: What Do You Call a Novel Written by 22 Authors? Watchlist! Karen Dionne 2010
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