To outline or not to outline, that is the question

I was honored to be asked to write a guest post for the fantastic site "Indies Unlimited" this week, where I discuss some problems I ran into while writing my second novel, and how creating an Outline helped me.
Kind regards
Dean

Dead Sea Scrolls discovered on the Internet

I met a great new friend named Tim Kavi via Twitter this week who is a fabulous poet. You can read his poems on his blog.

It got me thinking about my own poems that I wrote way back in the day. So I dug around my old files and found the following poem. I remember writing it as if it were yesterday. It was in the early days of the Internet.

Dead Sea Scrolls discovered on the Internet

I found the Dead Sea Scrolls while surfing
the other day
Perhaps Mr. Rogers and his blue cardigan know
about jazzy religions, and maybe even Buddha
catches a wave or two in search of enlightenment
but as for me, I don't let sea spray into my eyes
and monsters from the deep can't take
large bites from my board
instead
a two thousand year old philosopher
speaks my name,
curls fingers around my hand,
and takes me on a journey across the nets of old fisherman
cast perfectly in the sand

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