1/ Good question! I was talking a day or two ago about how the kinds of stories I like to write are multi-threaded. I've got my 9 or so threads, and I need to coordinate things across them. >>https://twitter.com/ConnerLeo/status/949352615044816896 …
3/ Other times I've got particular scenes in mind, and I need to generate a situation that justifies them but also has thematic unity with other things and keeps the tempo up.