*crashes into thread and curls up, half asleep* It's been a long day.
I'm one of those people that if I over do it, with planning, I actually jinx myself and I, in the end, will fail.
So I don't plan, and just by the seat of my pants, because that's how I did it last year, and I managed it. I don't totally go without a vague plan (I do have that) but as for character names, place names... etc... I don't have those as they will change, I guarantee it. Because they changed more times than I can count last year.

Nothing is set in stone.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to plan. But y'all do have to understand that the story will, most likely, take over and it will go off where you mean to go. Not a bad thing, but it's bound to happen - especially with how things go in the insanity that is November.