Help! my book is getting too complicated!

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Hello! I'm Writing on a story that is problably gonna be a book.
But i have so many problems with handeling the information.
I got documents with "scenes" and a document with the story shortly written down (five pages).
with that and Ideas and trying to form it so know what im going to write in the scenes.
I thought i finally solved my biggest problem by doing this, sticking to one document for the story.
But now i got five pages with storybits shorted down. I tried doing short notes to see all things that supposed to happen and decide which order it should be told. but it just became too much words and information way too much details.
beacause i want to write scenes with the information from the story document but it's so much different stuff.
I have no idea how to get this story into scenes.

does anyone have any good Writing ideas how to solve these kind of problems?
It's hard to describe the problem so i don't blame you if you got nohting to say about it.
just please share some thoughts about this and ask me questions if you can't understand what the H*ll im talking about.
this is making me very depressed and troubled please help

episodes. like in a Movie except text in the book where things happen.

STORYBOARD!

Know the basic characters and key interactions throughout the entire story in extremely-brief storyboard layout... almost like a VISIO chart.

If you've got a complicated story, this will keep you on track and not bogged down in non-essentials.

My advice is to just write the story. If you know your character, plot, where you want the story to start, and where you want the story to finish, then just start writing.

I usually write one chapter (which may consist of several scenes) per document. I end up with about 20 or so chapters.

The only way to write a story is to write it. Do not fret over planning.

If the scenes are in your head, then just write them out in full.

Your main goal at this stage should be to get a first draft complete. Then review and edit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart

Do you know all the important events in your book of fiction? All the characters? How it'll end?

A storyboard isn't just pictures for cartoons/games but just little "snapshots" of each important event.
Going the flowchart route still shows those same critical events, but also shows the decisions the characters have to make.

well i know kind of what it's about some stuff are missing, i know how it most probably will end though but i don't have the whole story yet. Haven't gotten to know my characters very well yet.
it's hard to know where to start.

it appears in pieces to me but often some things in some versions are Always the same. (yes there are different versions i can never make big decitions and get stuck so i copy and save different versions)

right now im working on one version i really like adn im going to stick to it to the end.
I will keep in mind what you told me Bluemax. I Think i understand what you mean.