/lit/ - Literature

How do you guys plan the general plot of your stories?

I found out that the ""lets improvise as I go" approach never works for me.

I generally have an idea for the setting, a setup, and a couple of disjointed scenes in my mind, what I end up doing most of the time is trying to come up with ways to get to said scenes without actually having a clear idea of how to get there or of what to do afterwards, instead of having a coherent chain of events laid down. Its almost a habit at this point, and I dont like it.