I began by writing numerous charts. It started to click together when I drew five or six timelines one above the other, each representing a character.
Then I saw how they were interwoven and I decided which scene I wanted to write, so it got me a step by step plan of the novel.
It is almost finished, (around 35 000 words now, should be 40-45 000 words top).
I've never been so excited and happy in my life.
My Mac is dead so, no it's not coming along well.
I have 100k of my philosophical urban fantasy novel now. I will need another 100k to finish it. Honestly I've no idea whether anyone will want to publish it because it's so weird, but it's really easy to write at this point. It has its own internal logic that I'm just following to its end. Hopefully that means I'm making magic. If not, it means I'm going to be a lot more experienced when I start my next novels. I'll be beating on that door until they let me in ...
I wrote a fantasy military history last year (I think? Basically the military history detailing the outbreak of a fictional conflict - think The Guns of August, but written by an autist), around 160k words long. >Self-published it for shits and giggles.
Working on a memoir now of my time studying abroad, but it's challenging as fuck, mostly because I can't just make things up to write myself out of a corner anymore. That and turning a bunch of random stories that happened to me into some kind of structured narrative is tough. Naturally I'm only like 3k words into it after like 4 months.