Outlining 101: whose book is it anyway?

How plot and character intersect

If this post is useful, thank the folks who responded to the craft survey I posted a few weeks ago. The two most popular topics were outlining and characterization, which makes a lot of sense. How to build a novel and who inhabits it are the biggest and most urgent questions facing any writer—not only at the outset, but throughout the entire process. Wh…