Have a book idea I'm quite enthusiastic about, but the problem is it rests on some intuitive assumptions that I... can't quite substantiate.
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Either I can start writing and hope this gives me the push I need to examine those assumptions more carefully, or I need to test them first.
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I've read enough books to know how often writers go with their original idea, fully aware it's BS but too invested in the work to rewrite it
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Alternatively, maybe a traditional beginning-to-end type story is simply a bad fit. There are other structures that might flow better.
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They say "write what you know," and I mostly have a non-exhaustive list of things I *don't* know.