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I'd recommend buying a book on writing.
I would suggest these as good places to start. If you wanted to pick just one on this list, I'd say go with James Scott Bell's Plot & Structure.
Rather than writing your novel from the end, get James Scott Bell's Write Your Novel from the Middle. It's $3 and you can finish it in a couple hours. Basically, you want to find the moment when your main character has a long, hard look at himself.
If you want more, his Plot and Structure goes more in depth into plotting and pacing.
After you've done your worldbuilding and created your setting, you need to set a story in this setting. So now you need to understand what the form of a story is like, so you can fit it inside your setting. Imagine your setting is a stairwell and the story is a couch. Okay, that's probably a terrible analogy, but I think at this point in your writing career it's going to be to your benefit to be clear on what a story is, so that you understand its structure.
Have a look at Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell.
This might help you out. If you have Kindle Unlimited it is included in your subscription. There are also some related books by the same author I haven't gotten to yet called Conflict & Suspense and Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint that I have checked out.
While you are planning, you could try filling out little things like this form I created in Scrivener. I find that it helps me solidify what my idea for a scene is and know when another scene is needed as well when before I would sit there and say, "I have no idea what to put here."
Edit: Of course there's a typo in the image I made for the sole purpose of sharing with writers. Why not! lol.
One book that has really helped me is James Scott Bell's Plot and Structure.