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 Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:35 pm
I briefly considered posting this in the WF, just for the bigger variety of responses, but I figured I'd get a thread full of "I write with my a**, because it's the only way my muse will speak to me, and I give my subfolders artistic names based off of the time of day and the amount of dirt underneath my eccentric fingernails."
So! I'm cleansing out the story folder, because I can and because it's how I procrastinate on actually getting any writing done (I'm trying to save myself, because it's a habit I know I have, so I'm only letting myself organize and ******** around with files and folders after I've written for the day), and I wanted insight on a couple of things.
How do you organize your story folder? Is it super-organized or do you just toss things in willy-nilly? Do you have a lot of files, or do you try and keep it to a minimum?
And how do you organize your actual note/outline files? Are you very formal, keeping everything to business and making sure it's all nice and clean within the file, or do you just write stuff as you want since you're probably the only one that'll read it anyways?
My current organization involves little more than a folder labeled "Story s**t" with a subfolder for actual story files and subfolders for characters ("R&N Characters," "NaNo '09 Characters," etc.), which I shove art and surveys in. Everything else hangs out in the actual Story s**t folder.
As for files I probably have way too many, but I try to keep outlines, character information &tc. in one note file for each story so it's more accessible.
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:46 pm
--Anorexic beauty queen, with painted eyes so toxic...--
Mine i organized by:
Kia's Writing(folder)
sub-folders named after the genres,
Folders in the sub folders with the title of the story,
Three folders in each, one for chapters, the other for reference notes, the last for detailed character descriptions/etc.
--...Flowers painted on her back, centerfold erotic--
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Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:05 pm
I'm still worldbuilding and figuring out what the plot is going to be like, so I have a lot of crossover references. I think my general sub-folders are "characters," "worldbuilding," and "plot," and within those I just stack things with similar references close to each other. Not anything so elaborate as color-coordination, though. And if I have a reference for plot in one of the papers I categorize as "worldbuilding," I just add it to the back of a page somewhere in the "plot" section and call it good. As you so aptly put it, I'm probably the only one that'll read it anyways.
Sometimes I feel like I should be more organized, but then I think about how many thousands of folders it would take to categorize everything perfectly... and I decide to just continue cobbling together my notes. rofl
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:54 pm
All my MOSI crap is in one massive folder creatively labeled "Vitae Stuff." There's a slew of files inside, everything from a highly inaccurate map to random one-sentence documents about things like how to force a faint, to the currency system, subtle variations in the countries' calender systems, "proper" national suffixes, the first draft, three different outlines, a "tiimeline," and a list of inn names for me to pick from. A lot of these files start with the word "the" and are therefore not very organized.
Then there's a "Brainstorming" folder, for documents where I've brainstormed about things, "Chapters," which contains each chapter in its own document, "Characters," which has a subfolder for each character's outdated bio and other related documents. There's also a subfolder for information on less important characters, labeled "Furniture."
"Fantarts" contains fanart. "Magic" contains notes on magic, which I'll someday compress into one comprehensive document. Or as comprehensive as I can manage while still not understanding a bit of it. "Random Miscellaneous Picture Thingers" contains pictures of other characters that look like mine, weapons, clothes, and a very colorful duck. "Scenes" contains scenes that will be retailored for the story, with subfolders like "Didn't Make the Cut," which are scenes that I cut but couldn't bear to delete, "Lower Trimore," because there are enough of those to warrant a file now, and "Outdated," for pre-planned scenes that became obsolete before getting written in.
Researched information is scattered through several sticky-noted books and the Favorites tab on my web browser.
The more I try to organize things, the less idea I have of where everything is. And I really should have more things written down, for how often I forget things these days. My filing system is a game of chance. Sometimes I find lost information in completely unrelated documents. It's awful.
And that's just MOSI. I'm not even sure I know where all my other story-related files and outlines are anymore. Maybe on the external drive or something.
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:57 pm
@Rae: That would drive me crazy. xd I'm not a hugely organizational person, but I'm a**l about file organization. I even have a matching system for the way I title and date my files.
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:55 pm
Organization is for people who finish their stories and win NaNo's... So I have exactly two files for my current story and it's on my desktop. blaugh
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Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 6:58 pm
Before I lost my memory on my computer I had a folder on my desktop titled "stories". Inside were multiple folders, one of each story I was writing at the time. Go in there and you would find both the story and any images I had for it (mostly my drawings). I didnt have multiple text files for a story, so that made it much easier, as I didnt have to save each chapter as something new
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