I always script everything out and detail my characters, so I know exactly where I want the story to go. Then, once I reach "critical mass," I wait for the explosion... that is, the first sentence of the first scene that will hook the reader into reading it all.
I like strong openings, and I concentrate on those to create an intro that must be finished, before you do anything else. (I, myself, usually find I can't tear myself away from writing it until it's done.) For me, that's often the hardest part of the entire book. Once I have that, writing the rest is relatively easy.
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