While I do own all three RPG books in hard copy, I also own 'Your Story' and 'The Paranet Papers' as PDF's.

I think that it may be best to do this in the order 'Your Story' suggests and go through the City Creation process first, then do the character creation so we can have characters that better fit whatever story you're trying to tell yeti. 

I've attempted to run several 'on-line' Dresden Files games, but they always fell apart. However, something like Skype where we can talk and discuss things I find generally works better than a forum. But, that's just my two cents.