Do you need to know the whole plot before you write any more?

I guess maybe you do if you're going to write out of order, but if you started from the beginning and went on, maybe you could work it out a step at a time?

I think you have some good stuff that needs very delicate working with, and you've already changed some ideas for the better, than can keep happening.

The other thing is well, if stealing a plot works, steal a plot. I stole the plot for my dragon book -- actually it ended up being about a third of the plot, but I didn't know that when I started. And my other books have mythology there providing a useful spine, or maybe a better metaphor would be one of those stick things like saplings have.

You can do it.