By Imara Moses
When I finally decided to sit down and write my memoir, the idea of writing a book had been floating around in my head for a while. Because I had been mulling over what I wanted my book to be about for some time, it only took one afternoon to write my outline.
I have a scientific writing background, so I knew I would not be able to write a good book without first having a rough sketch of what I wanted to share. The outline is critical to writing a book because it prevents it from being a series of random thoughts scrawled all over paper without any direction.
