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@elizabeth I’m a little bit in the same boat regarding my WIP, but I’m just going ahead and writing it, because I know that I can’t grasp everything at once, and certainly not in my first draft. When I come back the second time and finally can see everything from a much broader place, that’s when I’ll work in the foreshadowing, fix plot holes, and find better things for the transitions and small moments.

After all, the small moments are either the cause or the effect of the big ones, so I would say if you know all the implications your big plot points are going to have (which for me comes after writing it) then you can add all those emotions and details in the right places the second time through.

So I’m on the “let it just happen (and edit a lot later)” side. (But then I haven’t even gone through a full-length novel yet, so my advice probably isn’t the best.)

@kate @ethryndal