Plotting and Outlining

Even after writing over twenty books, I still face each new project with trepidation.

“What if this is the book where it all falls apart? What if this is the one I can’t write?”

I expressed these fears to my husband one evening and he answered with: “Trust your process.” The next day, I sat at my desk, opened a new document and started planning the book. Four days later, I had an outline for the first twelve chapters and was ready to start.

How you get from “this is going to be the book that...