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Once you've solved that, it's smooth sailing.
Some tips. Write your brief chapter by chapter synopsis before the novel's done. Then you can see what you're at, where you're going, and what you need to cut/add. You can do this for the whole trilogy, and maybe you'll find that you don't have a trilogy, or you have *almost* a trilogy and need more plot. Or whatever. But this can help give you some insight as to plot holes.
Another tip - Just write the first book and see where the natural end is. At that point, you can go back and see where you need to make changes.
Somewhere around 35-40,000 words is where I personally hit the brick wall of suckage that is the middle of every novel. It's possible you're there, where your mind is convinced everything is shit and it all needs reworked RIGHT. NOW. It doesn't. This is your first novel, and it's critical that you FINISH the FIRST DRAFT. I can't overstate the importance of this. There are literally millions of novels that never get finished because the author can't stop messing with the first part. Don't be that guy. Finish the first draft, THEN fix it.
Can I just thank Carrie as well here?
Because I SWEAR I am in the same boat as Ktdude on this, but where I'm not even past the first chapter draft and I want to stop and analyze EVERYTHING.
I think I needed to read and 'hear' this just as much. You can't edit what's not fully out in the open. XD