Character Vs. Plot

What we have in other words is Character Vs. Tools.

I think one reason we outline is because we fear that the Tools will lose this battle if we write from page one without knowing where we'll be on page 10.

The tools create the interesting set pieces, they create the interesting visuals, the interesting battles, and so on.

However when we write from an outline, we lose the interesting ways in which characters relate to each other.  The ways they hurt and help each other.