A Line Around the Outer Edge

"Outline - 1) A line showing the shape or boundary of something; 2) A statement or summary of the chief facts about something; 3) A sketch containing lines but no shading" - Oxford American Dictionary

If you want to be a professional novelist, odds are that sooner or later, you're going to write an outline. In fact, I would go so far as to say that eventually, you will have to write an outline, which is an extremely rare sort of statement for me. But what I mean by "have to write an outline" i...