Part 1

[Mirinee]

It depends on how long you plan the whole thing to be. If you're sure you know where you're going with the story and you know how it's going to finish, then you don't need to plan. All up to you, of course. All us readers really want is a good structured story, and by asking you to plan in advance, it decreases the chance of you suddenly losing interest/not knowing where to go next and discontinuing it, which would be awful since it's making quite a promising start. ;D