How The Hell Do You Do That?

Since I’ve finished work on draft one of my new novel, Enslaved, I decided to tackle a question I’ve gotten a lot since divulging my little writing secret–the outline.

How the hell do you outline and not go insane?

I will admit, when I first realized the universe for Enslaved was too big for me to wing it on the plot, terror seized my heart and I wanted to curl up in bed with my stuffed cows until some mystical being from above dipped a finger into my brainpan and fixed the problem. Unfortunate...