I spent roughly two months planning my novel; distilling the plot down into a single sentence, expanding that sentence into a paragraph-long three act overview, further expansion into a four page detailed synopsis, and finally outlining the conflict of each individual scene from start to finish. And then it came time to actually start writing the first draft

In this modern life that we live in, a lot of things get said, and very little of it is worth the time it took say it. I want to say something that takes a really long time to say, because I really believe that the things most worth saying are the things that are worth taking a long time to say.