1 I don wanna work i jus wanna bang on the drums all day...

2 Try setting up poster boards in a room, on a single wall, representing each chapter. Use post-it notes to insert elements into your chapters and move them around. Human beings (of our age) still rely on the hand-mind, body-mind connection and physically touching things and moving them around beats the best computer system. Besides, you should be able to see your entire book with one glance, up on a single wall--the flow will be instantly apparent. And think how cool that will look, especially to a stranger coming to your home! Imagine the scene in every serial-killer movie where the police walk in for the first time...

3 The husband uses lots of bulletin boards to keep track of each scene in his books/screenplays: he uses colorful 3 x 5 cards. I've thought about it, but I don't have a wall I'm looking at right now. I'm typing on my laptop on a couch in the dining room. I heard that Janet Fitch literally took the scenes in her book and hung them on a clothesline, picking out which ones should go where.

4 Clothesline? Sounds like stereotyping for a female author! I would also avoid washer/dryer fronts, the edge of the kitchen counter, and notes on stockings hanging in the bathroom. It does promote linear thinking, of course...But it does exclude that "whole book at a glance" thing. If you insist on using your computer, 3M has "Post-It, Software Notes2" --a memoboard for your computer desktop. The Lite version is free.