Outlining and summarizing

Had to post a link to this interesting post by David Forbes about writing book proposals (linked by someone on Twitter, argh, can't recall who). I've never tried to write a series — though I did think, once upon a time, that my first, now-abandoned novel might have been the first of three — and I'm always intrigued by hearing how series-writers conceive of their work. But I wanted to link to this post specifically because I finally found someone who writes even longer and more detailed...