PLOTTING IN EXCEL:
My plotting is done in Excel and then highlighted and taped together so I can see a bird's-eye-view of the entire story. After I have a working plot, I then go to Scrivener to begin writing the story.
FROM PLOTTING TO FIRST DRAFT
The video below is one that gives a new novelist, a true beginner, some tips that can help you with organizing your writing and keeping track of clues, background drops, character relationships and more. This system can be customized to whatever you as a new author needs in terms of tracking. For example, in my first novel, Groomed for Marriage, I dropped most background at least twice, and sometimes three times! That's how I came up with a way to be able to keep track of it in it's own section in Scrivener.
I hope you enjoy the video. If you have any suggestions for future videos about scrivener or anything else about "new authors", leave it below and I'll check it out.