How to Turn the Tables on Your Broken Outline

They say the best way to get from where you are to where you want to go is to map it out. For authors, this means outlining a book before you start writing it. But what happens when you do start writing and realize you’re not following the outline, or that you are but the content isn’t coming together the way you thought it would?

Outlines are funny things. On the one hand, it's important to think through what you want to say in your book and how to best structure that conversation—all before...