Writing from an outline

Anytime I begin writing a new book I struggle with the question of whether or not to write from an outline. The problem with an outline is that it tends to make the writing of the book less exciting. There is a whole field of possibilities for a story without an outline. For one thing you don't know the ending yet. And that makes it exciting.

But without one I don't have direction. So while I am starting to write Full Harvest Moon I am faced once again with that very issue. This time I have decided to start without an outline.

What do you think?

connie