We all have one, each as unique to the person as it is to the story being told. What's yours? Do you research everything you might use first? Do you build a whole world in your head before you ever write a sentence? Or do you simply wing it, and let the characters tell the story?

I'm curious, and I'm also hoping the insight gained might help me break a bit of my own writer's block!

If you have any organizational tools, tricks, habits, quirks, or whatever share those too!