People tend to really dislike this part of the process, but it’s very necessary. You might make it to a point that you don’t have to outline when you know a topic very intimately and you’ve written several books. For now, it’s time to embrace outlining. I think you’ll find that it saves you so much time that you’ll wonder what you ever did before you outlined!
People think they can save time by just sitting down and starting to write. The fact is that you’re just going to create more work for yourself when it comes time to edit. You might also fall prey to writer’s block. It takes a lot of effort to try to think up what to write next while you’re writing. It’s discouraging and it’s no way for most people to write a book.
I’m all about efficiency and speed and writing an excellent book. That means outlining. Your book should be well organized when you base it on your outline. If you just sit down and write on whatever comes to mind, the chances are good that your book won’t be very well organized. You’ll have a lot of reorganizing to do when it comes time to edit, which will end up taking you a lot more time in the end. If you’d just outlined in the first place, which really only has to take a few minutes, you would have saved yourself a lot of time and headache.