No. Because I know I just have to turn up and write, but let me explain that further. There’s times when the story isn’t working and sometimes that’s because I’m trying to push it in the wrong direction or sometimes it’s because I don’t have enough information for that scene or that part of the story. So I then ignore that part and jump around. During the first draft I’ll just leave blanks if I don’t know what is going to happen at a particular part and I’ll just add square brackets with a note inside saying something like [what happens here?] and then a note in the margins/comments in Scrivener saying something like [where does Malia sleep?] so I know to add that later. Then I just carry on writing the bit I do know. If there’s huge gaps, such as not knowing anything about the world of the lake, then I’ll just leave it; sometimes until the next re-write. And that’s good too because I need a fuller sense of the story before I can work out what that world looks like and how it functions. If I’m really stuck then I just write – inside the story – as a the writer who has no idea what they are writing, saying things like “What on earth happens here? I don’t even know why she would do that and why does Bernie have that weird piece of rubbish anyway?…” and I’ll continue typing about the problems I’m having and then usually I start to naturally problem solve. It might not be during that writing session. It might be the next day, or months down the track that an answer suddenly appears. So a lot of writing is trusting even when you have no idea what is going on and you’ve just got a few images or a phrase that a character says to go on. It’s just like life when you step forward in faith knowing that there is a plan, knowing that God has got this, and you just have to take the next step.