Beswitchingly,

It's a pleasure to have you join us. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself.

Outlines are something I feel I need but have not been able to grasp and use, but I want to. I have plenty of short stories and scenes and I want to be able to make them into a longer work. It helps when a character or two are really strong for the story to take it's own form around them. The writing just flows. If it isn't (I got all blocked up for a while in level two) I make myself write anyway.
Very interesting!

I hear some future assignments being created for you and your desire to use an outline. Be warned, sometimes those strong characters will take control of the story and turn the ending into what it should be, versus what we thought it would be, when we started. Pushy characters!
I adore them.

Have you ever tried using "character sheets"?

Thanks again,

Ruby