My balloon boy story...

Most of the time, when I get an idea for a story, I sit down and crank out several pages. It just isn't working for me this time. I don't want to trash this story yet because I have a lot of ideas for it. I know what kind of story I want it to be, I've got my character down, and the plot figured out, I don't know how to form it all together just yet. A friend from college once told me about these books that he used to read. He said that the author wrote out notes and bullet points of his character development/plot. Maybe I'll do that. Go back to the drawing board. It's all just filler from there. Right?