The novel writing plans ahead

March madness is coming up ahead. Serious plans are being made, considerations on writing novel are becoming serious and not just random thinking. There's a way to get it done that I can see too, divide a novel into short sections that I can write in one sitting, plan the heck out of every scene, and just write those sections.

This is not idle planning, high-level wishful thinking. I have the blueprints. Just need to plan out the details for each project.

Here's what I'm thinking. The novel will have 30 chapters, each chapter 2 scenes. Each scene is to be divided into 3 parts, each part comprising of 2 structural elements (in general, this is not a hard-and-fast rule). The 6 structural elements of a scene are: 1) exposition, 2) inciting incident, 3) turning point progressive complication, 4) crisis, 5) climax, and 6) resolution. The idea is that during initial planning I will know what each chapter will do, the beginning and end of every scene. I will know what the scene will begin at, where it will be located, the characters, and where it should end up at. Then, in every writing session I look up a scene, figure out what structural elements I need to write for it, and start writing.

The confusion lies on whether I want to be planning at a 'third' level or a scene level, because if I plan at a scene level but write at a third level, there's going to be a mismatch: scenes MUST be coherent and will read strange if different elements of it are not connected to each other because I wrote them at very different times. But this is overthinking the details. Lets plan out the chapters first, the outline should help me decide what the atomic element of my writing is.

Where I will start on then: I will need to plan out the characters, their motivations, the plot and various scenes to get started. I will fill in the scene details later, and then eventually shape and mold the exact direction. After all the scenes have been written I can always go back to make everything more coherent, add voice to the characters, improve the quality of writing and inject 'underlying themes' and as such. The goal is to produce a novel, a lightly-connected passages of 1500-1800 words each that number 60, over the course of a month or so.

The interesting thing is, it might actually be easier to write this novel than the phoenix project since at least nobody can 'look up' the data, I can just lie through my teeth and it only has to be internally consistent. Which is not even important as I'm going to be the only reader. This will be the first, crappy draft, no pressure. Just get the words out already!