What I really need is a proper WIP folder somewhere so that I can find things when I want to work on them instead of starting from scratch each time.
You could always follow along in the very sane and complication-free greyias method of WIPs. I usually wind up starting in Notepad (using asterisks to indicate italics), just writing stuff out until it becomes something resembling a story. Then to save it, if I'm away from my computer at home I shall copy and paste it into a draft on gmail. And then Google Docs. Then I'll save a copy to Word and e-mail that in a separate e-mail. If I have a thumb drive on me, I'll also save to a thumb drive... you can never be too careful.
Then when I get home, I'll paste the new stuff into the previous day's file, and save it as a new draft with a previous date. Then I can resume writing, safe in the knowledge that I have not lost anything, and I can go find whatever phrase I threw away yesterday in favor of what I've written today...
...then by the end of the week I have to move my seven different files into a folder labeled "Old Drafts" never to be looked at again, unless in a fit of panic I need to find some small bit of dialogue or narrative gem that I deleted.
See? Perfectly sane and not complicated at all.
How's everyone else?
It's Monday morning and I have done battle with a color printer for about two hours straight... I'm sore and under caffeinated.
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Date: 2008-11-03 05:25 pm (UTC)What I really need is a proper WIP folder somewhere so that I can find things when I want to work on them instead of starting from scratch each time.
You could always follow along in the very sane and complication-free
Then when I get home, I'll paste the new stuff into the previous day's file, and save it as a new draft with a previous date. Then I can resume writing, safe in the knowledge that I have not lost anything, and I can go find whatever phrase I threw away yesterday in favor of what I've written today...
...then by the end of the week I have to move my seven different files into a folder labeled "Old Drafts" never to be looked at again, unless in a fit of panic I need to find some small bit of dialogue or narrative gem that I deleted.
See? Perfectly sane and not complicated at all.
How's everyone else?
It's Monday morning and I have done battle with a color printer for about two hours straight... I'm sore and under caffeinated.