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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.