Perhaps I COULD have - if I'd been chained up in a windowless cellar with a packet of biro pens and limitless paper, no biscuits and nothing else to do. As it is, or was.....here is the scientific proof that I haven't. Viz. my Novel Progress Chart, or NPC, covering the last month.....
Today I managed to plan the 'structure'. I have no plot, just a 'structure'. And I've identified some of the characters about whom I might be able to summon the enthusiasm to write. Or something. Whatever...