So one thing I decided a while ago was to record all my ideas onto a single word doc. This has let me keep everything somewhat organised in one very long, ever growing document (currently around 170+ pages) where I've separated everything in to genres first before showing off the working title, the overview, the general outline I want the story to take, characters bio, world building, equipment and so on. Even some very rough drafts or passages I think would work later on in the story. After this when I'm as happy with it as a I can be, I just copy a particular story details I want to work on into a separate doc and take it from there.
This has had some drawbacks, as it's a very loooooong doc to scroll through, and because I do like to use a pen and paper to write my ideas as well and I've kept those in a file box on my desk at home. One story I've had ideas for over the years has about five different "drafts" of outlines and character bios, which I've typed up onto the main word doc just by typing one version after another after another, with the aim of just merging them all into one at a later date. Which has very much become a back burner project now.
I figure everyone else will probably have their own way of doing it, and I am curious what everyone else's methods might be.
This has had some drawbacks, as it's a very loooooong doc to scroll through, and because I do like to use a pen and paper to write my ideas as well and I've kept those in a file box on my desk at home. One story I've had ideas for over the years has about five different "drafts" of outlines and character bios, which I've typed up onto the main word doc just by typing one version after another after another, with the aim of just merging them all into one at a later date. Which has very much become a back burner project now.
I figure everyone else will probably have their own way of doing it, and I am curious what everyone else's methods might be.