The next step in creating your outline is to create the guidebook that will go with the road map that you created in part one. My guidebook is a 70 page wide ruled single subject notebook. The wide rule to the pages allows for adding or editing sections to my notes. Each page (front and back) is numbered to correspond to a scene in the book. This makes for 140 scenes total, if I need more scenes I can use a second notebook.
Once you have your notebook you want to start at the beginning of the road map you made and mark the first page in your notebook to match the first encounter on your map. This is the encounter that sets the hero on his path. Decide what that motivating event is and write a single page in the notebook describing what you want to happen.
Finished? Good, flip the page and using the other side write what happens in scene two. This will be a direct result of the first scene, carrying through on what had happened to the character in the scene before, how they react to the previous scene will dictate, in part, what the new scene is going to be like.
Keep going through the notebook adding in notes on each event for your story until you have all of the scenes sketched out at least a little, enough that you can add to it later on as you work on the novel.
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