Planning & Plotting

So I'm wondering about long term plotting and the best way to approach it.

Should you write your detailed character bios one by one and then piece them together?

Should you list the events you want to occur on chronological fashion and then just let your characters react?

How then will you decide what information to reveal when? How will you know what your characters know?

Should you build your character network and then expand your plot from there?

Should you write a list of events you want to happen in your story and then tie them together?

Ugh... Guess I'll have to try them one by one.

Google returns these...

http://www.janetteowens.com/delores%20thornton_march%20issue%202004.htm
http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=932
https://www.cs.tcd.ie/~byrnes8/Trinity/Vision_Project/PG3.html

...as well as a few PDFs. Tomorrow's reading I guess.