I was just thinking about T'aint, my young adult novel-in-progress, and realised that my protagonist is going to have even more complications and obstacles than I'd originally conceived. I have no idea yet how I'm going to get her out of them, but obstacles are fiction gold, and gave me a way in to begin this morning's writing. Many of my creative writing students will go out of the way to un-create a plot problem before it has a chance to become one. You know, along the lines of, "The dragon was warning her in an obscure dialect of ancient Hill Peltish. Luckily, she was fluent in it, since her grandmother had been a scholar of ancient Hill Peltish who, in her final years, would speak nothing but." Don't overdo that. It's an easy way out, and it flattens your plot, makes it dull. I feel the same way about convenient prophesies in fantasy fiction.