What's Next in a Novel?

"I feel like i've well established the capital city. I don't even know how to say it in the book, it's a e t a." "So that cause i'm getting more clear on things like the propaganda that's going to be in the beginning hook in new york and then some of the stuff that's going on in the capital," he says. He suggests writing out your 15 structural check points of a global story using index cards. 'You do, you have one index card, and you write that structural scene down'