I use the software Scrivener and start with a binder named for the project. If I have a series planned I set the binder up with the series name. Each individual manuscript will be within that binder.
I love Scrivener. I split my screen horizontally and have the cork board on the bottom. On the top, my manuscript setting, I start a brainstorming page. I take all kinds of random notes there--names, snippets of dialogue or characterization or plot. Anything.
The cork board is the organizational aspect. As I choose place names, I copy them to an place index card(virtual). Same with character names. Object names--maybe they call an 'airship' something else!
I also search the internet for graphics--mountain vistas, or castles, spaceships, whatever, and put them on my cork board. I'm visual and that give me a better sense of place. I often find people who resemble my characters, and perhaps clothes they might wear.
Eventually I replace the brainstorming manuscript with a rough narrative synopsis. Once that is done I start the first draft. For me the synopsis stage is fun and creative. I often visualize scenes and sometimes even dream about them.
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