Keef is absolutely right, but it's totally the wrong answer
I think the way to do VFR navigation is to first plan the wind-corrected heading. This will usually be slightly wrong because a) the forecast is wrong; b) almost nobody can fly an accurate heading for very long; c) the DI in most school planes drifts around too much.
So one has to make adjustments as one goes along.
The trick is to not fly from one feature to the next. One always flies a HEADING. One attempts to identify ground features as one goes along (not just mid-leg or whatever). This heading is then corrected a few degrees either way, when ground features which have been POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED are seen to be somewhat off.
The key is POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED. A lot of things looks the same down there, and it's too easy to make a correction due to a mis-identification. I suspect this is the #1 reason people get lost, VFR.