It has been about two weeks since I knew what I had to do, and finally I more or less conquered my subconscious fear and started drafting the "falsework" or skeleton outline.
The Initial Outline
The outline is a list of bullet points of events in the story that are organized chronologically. There are several places where I'm not sure which event should happen exactly where, but I think I have a general idea of what events there might be and some of the order. This practice also brought up several key questions that need to be answered to support the storyline related to money/finances of the characters and their more in-depth motivations. I suppose this will also help form the characters.
Reviewing the Outline
I reviewed the outline with my husband, which helped me to shape some ideas and notice areas in the outline that might seem to either lag, leave a hole, be out of place, or that may be too busy. There are also a couple of ideas that I wasn't sure if they would be hokey, but most seemed to pass the suspension of disbelief or bull**** test. Interestingly enough, my older son wanted me to read the outline to him, rather than discussing the bullet items, so I read my words verbatim, including questions I had written next to the bullet points, and that also gave me another perspective on the storyline. I could more easily "hear" when the logic need support.
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