"DUH"

I've been working with a novel writing program called "Book in a Month a fool-proof system for writing a novel in 30 days," by Victoria Lynn Schmidt, PH.D. Of course it has been at least seven months of me trying to complete my novel. I kept getting stuck on day two which tells us to write ten essential scenes. Well that threw me for a loop. I am one of those people that write to discover. I kept asking how can I write essential scenes when I haven't a clue what will happen in my story? Today I figured it out. I asked myself what do I know about my story? I know about ten things I want to happen. It didn't hit me until now that those are my ten scenes. Duh! There will be other scenes that will lead up to the ten but the ten provides the framework of the story. I now understand on other times why I would get to a point and get stuck for years. With this method. it forces me to think out the story to the end. I'm sure that lots of material will end up on the editing floor but at least my story will be written- finally.