Good advice for starting a light novel?

[The chaser]

I was in making a novel too, but it was in the page 100th or so that I realized the argument was pointless, that the characters didn't have life, so yeah, I've cancelled it.

At first, I'd make a list of ALL the characters that appear in the novel and their progress as the story goes through (Breaking Bad is a great example of this). Then, I'd write the storyboard (what things happen, when, why, who did it, etc.) to keep a timeline of happenings.

And that's all from my part