Inevitable

I want the plot of my current WIP to feel inevitable. Not all books are like this and I love plenty of boks that build slowly like The Magicians or The Name of the Wind.

But there are books that set everything up in the first chapter and while you may not realize, the rest of the book is an unfolding of those possibilities. A couple books like this are Among The Hidden and The Demon's Lexicon. This isn't to say there are no surprises in these nooks. There are, but when you go back to the b...