My original story was in the format of a diary. I now know that I can’t write a story in this way as it didn’t come naturally. I don’t care if this is not the format for me, I’m not going to make myself learn, it’s something I know I’m not comfortable doing so why stress myself trying to do it? I’m going back to good old regular narrative, but my MC will remain in the first person.
I had thirty one entries as a diary. I’ve listed these in a spread sheet and I now have roughly twenty one chapters. This too, may or may not change since I have new scenes to implement and a new climax to also figure out. Instead of the ‘aha’ moment I’ll have more of a ‘dun, nun, nun, nah’ scene.
In Microsoft Word I started a list of these chapters with a bullet point summary of each scene – a basic idea of what’s to happen. This will help me figure out where the new scenes need to go as well as keep tabs on where everything happens during the story. Then, when all my chapters are in place and eveything that’s to happen in them is sorted, I’ll go back to my last draft and start changing over the narrative and dialogue to reflect my new format. As I mentioned in a previous post, most of my story is already in a narrative style so hopefully this won’t take too long.
Once I’m happy with this latest draft I’ll enlist beta reader/s to go over and see how it flows from there.
Including me, right?
RIGHT? I’m really interested to see the next draft. 
Have I written anything worthwhile without you? Precisely.
Hooray!! And yes, I am sure you have, trust in your voice as a writer.
You see the problems, with a bit of time and objectivity. (Just also make sure to trust an editor when you make it big, and don’t pull an Anne Rice…)