Even when I’ve outlined meticulously before I started writing, I might not know for sure what the most heart-exploding moments are on the first go-round. Nor do I know the exact order things need to happen in, because little things always shift around. All too often, that little scene that I thought was just filler turns out to be the last time that two characters get a chance to talk to each other before something huge and terrible (or awesome) happens. Even more frequently, I realize there’s a scene missing, and two people need to talk before they’re thrown into the deep end.
