Jake’s answer to “How many hours and/or time do you put into outlining or do you just work the re-writes?” > Likes and Comments

Once again, spoken like a true professional... or no, in this case, I'd say a true "author" because the professionals do often use outlines but those authors who become super famous and are referred to as authors rather than corporate best sell-outs usually after writing crap using an outline start to write instead the nagging ghost that's been haunting them their whole lives and suddenly produce the world's greatest masterpiece ever. Never have I heard any of the greats talk about having started out with an outline. Never. Only today's corporate slaves who write a new book every week about none-sense such as "writers block" and "Using an Outline" and other useless trash for the billion people out there trying to become something they're not. Some of the best authors in the world, were not English majors, and came from walks of life such as your own, and wrote books as beautiful as yours! Majoring in English or partnering up with a corporation or producing a movie or being heralded as a literary genius usually comes many years after sitting down and writing that book. Something they never admit in the How-to-Become-a-Famous-Author seminars.