Animating a Short Film

I am animating a short film, expecting the run time to be about five minutes. It will address the question, "How much do we value convenience?" I must confess that I have not storyboarded it. Doing so would have made it easier to see the end of the film-- as I point out in my "Here are Some Keyframes to a Story" post-- and  I may have animated it quicker knowing what the important beats are. Instead it is taking me over a year to animate because I couldn’t figure out what comes next and how.