I am a big proponent of writing a great outline. That way you can avoid hitting a roadblock. There is no worse feeling than writing yourself into a corner but if you've figured it all out in the outline then you won't have that problem.

我非常赞成写一个伟大的大纲。这样你就可以避免遇到障碍。没有什么比把自己写在一个角落里更糟糕的了，但是如果你在大纲里把所有的事情都写出来了，那么你就不会有这个问题了。