From Shorts to Novels; Skeleton Blocking

If I'm completely honest here I've not been writing my story as often as I'd like for differing reasons, but I have written more! I am still being fairly productive!! As I said before moving from short stories, (the majority done at a younger age) to attempting a Novel I wasn't absolutely certain how to approach it but I've found a way of writing now that suits me and that I think is a good way of getting more out of my story and will help to make it into the length of a novel. This particular way of writing, imma go ahead and call Skeleton Blocking; this consists of me writing a good block of stuff, the way I would for a short story (conserving certain words, information etc to make the most of the words) and just by doing this for the introduction I've already got to the length of my longest short story. Once this initial writing is done (basically blocking) I then go back to certain sections of it, and decide to add a character introduction/description, or a little bit more descriptiveness to an event and basically  attempting to make it as effective as possible. Then when I'm happy with the additions or alterations I've made, I'll continue with the story and do the process again, whether i'm gonna do this for the whole novel I'm not sure but in terms of getting me use to the length and scale of the novel compared to the short story and to help me understand my own story even more. There is always more you can comprehend about your own work, even when you've written so much background you think you could actually live in that town with those people and understand how the town works and how the people tick, there's always more that can be done to enhance the story. This is an extremely brief post compared to the others, I realise that...and its a little discomforting but still, if its short maybe that means there's not many negatives about the project? YAY