Novel Progress: The Importance of My Outline

I was born a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants storyteller.  Unfortunately, I was so much like that I couldn't pull a story together enough for publication.  Thanks to Jacqueline Lichtenberg  and  Blake Snyder   and the Monomyth  I learned to sort out the mess and here I am.  Let me tell ya, root canal is faster and less painful! 
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Anyway, I had a hard time getting going on Blood, Dark and Sweet this morning and I knew, without looking, that I had scenes mixed up.  Thanks to the outline, all I had to do is go back and look.  Oh, that blood-sucking dead guys is a minor antagonist.  He doesn't come in until the second chapter.  Duh. 
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The beauty of the scene-by-scene outline is it saves me a lot of time and frustration.  I work the story out in my head first, hammer out the outline, and I'm good for go.  When I run into problems, I can easily move things around like putting a jigsaw puzzle together.
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It's also easier to stop and start, which I do a lot because I have four children.  Speaking of which, I need to get off the comp and go load the dishwasher.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!