Daydream Playbook

Take the time to actively boil ideas. Think on paper. Ask questions and write out answers and potential storylines. Try to limit these creative pomodoros to only a few a day if you can. 

When you start plotting you might be spending days doing nothing but think-sketching. This is your time to actively daydream onto paper then use that as a map as to where to go in your writing. Organize scene lists and then expand upon them.

Dialogue, potential ideas, anything you want to daydream think-sketch it out. Ask questions like why does a character act this way and what would happen. I use a notebook for think-sketching, but I also use a whiteboard when it comes further to distillation of the plot. It is much like storyboarding except with lines of text rather than drawings. Finales and mid-point finales might take more time to organize. 

I backup these notebooks and whiteboard scans with app called Genius Scan + that allows me to keep my digitized work offline in PDFs. This of course is backed up as well about once a month depending on need. 

Just like with a playbook in sports it will never follow the techniques planned out exactly. Nor should it. To quote Bruce Lee "Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind." A playbook is only an idea of what is to happen. When you write things will naturally evolve regardless of structure. Produce pomodoros (actual writing) should be prioritized in a day.