Every writer has a process, and what is right for one may not be right for another, but there are certain steps with which we should probably be aware.
Your plan directs your footsteps and springs from your original idea for the piece you're creating. I'm an impatient, impulsive writer, and so I quickly become bored with planning, which is where my skeleton is useful. Like the house in the photo there has to be some foundations. That is your starting point.
However, while you are creating, there may be obstacles, or improvements that you want to make that deviate from your plan, and it is useful to know where the change originated and where you expect it to go. The house above didn't have a garage!
My 'skeleton' is a summary of what I am writing while in the process of creating the story. At the end of a writing session I go to my record and update what I've done. It includes anything new, any new characters and progress made. As for the architect of a house you redraw, update materials required and calculate costs.
Unlike elephants, my memory is fallible, and so having a dynamic record of work done saves me time in re-reading work. I find it hard enough to edit stories/poems because it seems a backward step, but that is just the way my mind works.
How you keep such a record is for you to decide but I open a separate file on the computer, a notebook may suffice, whatever suits you is the right way.
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