Three ways to see the whole book. The skeleton works from the top down, for planning. The beats track its shape and the scenes that carry each one. The chapter view below is built from your scenes, so it stays current as the draft changes. If you discover as you write, leave the skeleton blank and use the chapter view.
After Randy Ingermanson's Snowflake Method. Write each step when the one before it feels settled, and keep earlier versions in a toggle with their dates.
Done when the step you are on feels settled and its earlier version is dated in Earlier versions.
About fifteen words, with no names: who, what they are up against, and what is at risk.
Five sentences: the setup, three turns that each make things worse, and the ending.
Expand each sentence of the paragraph into a paragraph of its own. Join events with therefore and but where you can. When the page is done, add the scenes it needs to Scenes.
The shape of the book, beat by beat, with the scenes that carry each one. Swap the starting beats for any structure you work with: three acts, a beat sheet, seven points or your own.
Done when every beat has at least one scene, or a note on why it is open.
Your scenes grouped by chapter, in order. Read down it for a viewpoint that disappears, a thread seen only once, or a run of chapters where nothing is left open. Give every scene a chapter number for it to appear here.