But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make themif you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the linewell, youre deluding yourself. For one thing, its easier to plan derivative workthings that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull