How do you plan your maps?

[o_imbrifer]

Greetings fellow mappers,

I wanted to know how y'all planned out your original (or remake) maps. Do you start out drawing on paper? Do you just draw a floorplan and imagine the rest, or do you do detailed drawings of rooms and architecture?

The way I do it is I start out drawing a floor plan on graph paper. I use that to make the general map architecture, and then I come up with the detailed architecture afterwards without advanced planning (which has created some problems with me - its hard to be creative on demand).