Why I don't use outlines - a reflection

I just noticed the page of "outline" for my novel "The Hunt for the GinGunGyn".

By the time I wrote the novel, the down and out thief had become a street orphan with a stutter.

The female detective character had a far worse time than originally anticipated.

And this

Section 3Here is where the three characters start intersecting

Is the outline version of a major novel section.

Me and trying to outline the action in a novel before writing - it just doesn't work for me.