Before you start the process of writing a fiction novel, you have got to have a reasonably good idea of your story— the beginning, middle, climax and end.
To get to this point, you need to have done some deep thinking, and if you have done so, you are ready to start. Also, by ‘reasonably good’ I mean that you have an outline in mind and perhaps a grasp of the twists and turns of the plot, and maybe an inkling of the climax and end of the story. O