I loved the way you developed your article and I can see how it would help certain people. Most people need to organise - however, there are a few of us who cannot write if we have to organise.
I have not spent my life writing, only the last 18 years. However, much of it has been at the rate of 8 to 14 pages a day.
I did not have an idea for a novel. I had one very simple idea: A baby is born with the gift of empathy. She can feel everyone but she can also take what they feel, add what she wants and sent it back, for instance, softening their pain.
That is all I had for starting with. I have now written 13 books of between 1,200 to 2,000 pages each. At another site, for years, as I wrote and completed each book, I had about 740 readers downloading my books.
I never had compliments about my ideas; what I had was comments about my characters, some of them very touching.
Before, I tried to write poetry, but I was encouraged to study, send my poems to certain poetry mags and go to poetry coffee shops in London where you read out your poem and get criticised.
It killed my ability to write poetry (only one poem has survived out of hundreds over forty years) and I posted it here - at least I had one beautiful comment, so I'm not sorry.
Same with my love for sketching and painting. I was sent to art school and within less than a year I set everything on fire and never sketched or painted again.
As far as I am concerned, I do not write my story, my characters do. To make it clear that it is so, they write in a diary and my subconscious receives it and I write. Communication between conscious and subconscious is not that good, so they often get angry with me for messing up their lives.
I am making this long comment, because I want to tell your readers that you are correct and your advice is good for most people, but if they do not fit and need to do crazy - then they must go ahead and do it.
RE: Writing a Novel