Fiction Outlines: How do you approach them?

This is for the fiction writers out there. If you're an habitual outliner, I need your opinion. Do you approach it like a synopsis, or do you go commando with bullet style?

I'm a wordy person. My first book went through numerous revisions and whole blocks of chapters ended up in the wastebasket. I want to try a different approach with my second book. I'm three chapters into it and I'm just now embarking on an outline approach. But I chose the synopsis-style route, and to be honest, my first chapter outline is dangerously close to chapter length. And that's with "tight" writing.

Comments appreciated!

Wamego, KS is as Americana as you can get.

Standing in front of the Oz Museum, I felt the same isolation that I did watching the opening scenes on that rural Kansas farm some 45 years ago.

A moment in my mind...

When I was ten, Nana took me to see a piano recital. I hadn't wanted to go, but she insisted.

It was awful.

The tink, tink, tink, the swelling and falling of sound. I wanted to jump up, rip off my summer dress and dance like a Russian Cossack in my knickers and sock feet, all the while screaming Spanish curse words.

But one glance at Nana told me this would not be a good idea. So I suffered.

For art, no less.

*** Another character has surfaced in the author's mind. Will she be heard?