Dean Backus
Start with the ending!! I had numerous aborted novels in my youth that started off with a decent premise and characters, and then just fizzled out because I didn't know where the story was going. If you know how you want the story to end and what happens to the characters over the course of their arcs, it helps tremendously.
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