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I think point 1 dovetails with Chuck Wendig's "Plot is like soylent green: it's made of people." the NaNo thing where "and then this happens and then this" is, like you said, what happens when they don't know their characters. My brain does this thing to me where, when I'm trying to do something that is OOC, it just won't do words, which usually takes me far too fucking long to figure out that's what I'm stuck on. But I think it's useful to go back to each scene (or at least major event) in an outline and go "what do each of the players WANT here" because that will flesh out the scene as well as the character.