I feel a bit the same, though I did manage to finish one short fic in January. I have some longer pieces that really need some work, though, so hope to get back to them at some point this year. Good luck with the A-Z challenge inspiring you with yours!

Ooh, One Note, huh? We have it, but I've never really known how to use it, so maybe I will have to investigate. I'm pretty bad at doing anything except opening a page and beginning to write and just seeing where it will take me... which can be a bit hopeless sometimes, but generally seems to lead me somewhere, although I've found knowing exactly WHERE my fic is supposed to end (without knowing how I'll get there precisely) can also be quite effective at actually making me finish something (because starting? No problem! Finishing? Not so great).

I know what you mean about keeping things straight too - sometimes I've gone away so long, that when I come back I find myself completing contradicting something from earlier in the story, or making someone completely different to how they started out... So yeah, organisation can definitely help. One Note, right?

You sound like me on research too, although I am notoriously lazy and very good at being extremely vague or picking a POV of someone who knows less than I do... or else I enlist interested friends to find/give me answers. That's not to say I don't do research if it interests me, but sometimes... yeah. ;-)

Thanks for joining in - always good to find others who think similarly on some of the writing things! ;-)