Oddbean new post about login | logout @7ccb675f Draft 1 for me was a rough scene that I kept playing over in my mind months before I wrote word 1 to paper, and in its current form the closest thing to that scene is the very end of book 3. To me the characters have to come first. Once I know who they are and how they play off each other, I can set plot goals and know what will carry them there naturally.