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Decide what success looks like before you open a single listing. If you skip that step, a residency turns into inspiration browsing. That is how you end up chasing attractive programs that do not actually help you finish the work in front of you.
If your characters make choices that feel convenient instead of true, the draft can get expensive fast. You end up patching weak motivation, forcing plot turns, and sometimes rewriting from page one because the people carrying the story were never clear enough to begin with.
A checklist becomes a project risk when it keeps demanding more lore than your story can actually use. Checklists are not the problem on their own. A [writer's checklist](https://www.publicationcoach.com/why-writers-need-checklists) can catch avoidable mistakes before submission. An open-ended lore checklist does something else: it quietly turns drafting time into background research with no clear stop point.