I love to hear about other people's writing and pre-writing processes, so thanks for sharing.

I've been wanting to set up some files for clippings and photos and such, but just haven't gotten around to it. Seeing yours inspires me to work on a nice system for the new year.

I outline and make notes and then re-outline, like you do. determine how many chapters, the lengths of them, rearrange, all that good stuff.

Sadly, for my NaNo projects, I didn't have time for all that and had to go with plot points and the fact that these stories have (in broad details, not the finer points) lived in my head for a while.