I suppose you would outline it, and then pick an assignment each day and write it, but that takes the life out of it. The controlled unraveling of a foretold event doesn't work for me. It's in the discovery that I find the energy to invent. Discovery is the only time that there's life in writing, at least for me. In a number of your stories, and now in For Kings and Planets, you have explored the consequences of genius.
Genius is such an illuminative subject.
One of the most fascinating people in the world, to me, is Bob Beamon. He was a low-level long jumper on the U.S. Olympic Team. At the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, Beamon made his first two jumps and didn't even place. The leader was ahead by about a quarter of an inch. And he never did it again.