Stover's Rules of Writing #3

In response to Guy's question on back-story: When in doubt, see Rule #1a.

Which I know is a non-answer, so let's dig in here a bit.

Iron Dawn was written with a detailed outline that I had to scrap halfway through because I discovered an unseen idiot block in the plot. Jericho Moon was also written with a detailed outline that was scrapped halfway through, because I discovered that as plotted, Barra, Leucas and Kheperu would never actually interact with Joshua himself, which simply will not...