Magnetic Course

Attend virtually any writing conference and you are almost guaranteed to hear a debate on the merits of outlining a book before it's written. The universal answer, echoed each and every time, ends up being "do what works for you." As if that's good advice. But since this blog is about both writing and being on the water, let's leave that subject for a moment and escape into boating.

And escape I did on a sweet little 23-foot Mako named Fishfinder that I owned a number of years ago. The boat...