Different Things You Need To Know Before Writing

I was chatting with Liana on the weekend about #SekritNovel, which for whatever reason is playing on my mind again (look, I’ve learned not to ask these questions. My brain dwells on the books it’s interested in at the time, and I just have to run with that), and we got to a point in the conversation where I’d explained a bunch of the worldbuilding to her, and she was all, Yes, your story is X group of people learn Y life lesson.

All of a sudden, the whole series (four books) leapt into crysta...