As a user, I would like to have the option to open a novel directly to the last scene I was working in. This could be a setting that a user can select or deselect. So, when clicking on a novel, the setting could be either to open into the "plan" workspace or open in "write" in the last scene edited. It could either be a system-wide setting or a novel-by-novel setting.
Perhaps, if opening from the full list, it opens into Plan. If clicking a novel from the "Continue where you left off" section, it would open to the last scene edited.