Keeping Organized and a bit about File Naming **Updated**

   Hi all! Today’s topic comes from a question posted by a new member on FWO; a fiction writer’s site I belong to.

   “Does anyone have any tips on organizing my notes?” (I’m paraphrasing)

   Well we all have our own ways and our own methods of attempting to organize the creativity oozing from between our ears. A lot of us carry around laptops or tablets these days. But, even with the ever changing, more and more portable, highly interactive computing devices available in our world - even right down to our phones - nothing seems to be as popular as good old fashioned pen and paper when it comes to fiction writers. So what does that mean? That means that most of us have shelves, boxes, bins, even closets full of these processed trees. If you’re working on one, maybe two projects at once that’s usually not a problem to keep these organized as carrying two notebooks and switching between them when necessary isn’t too difficult. But if that was your situation you wouldn’t be asking; “How do I keep organized,” now would you?

Blog UPDATES!!!

HI ALL!!!

    Well guess what?! I realized that my writing tools might be a lot more useful if they were editable forms instead of just printable forms. So there's a bit of a delay there. HOWEVER! I finally got around to creating the images and uploading the changes I've been wanting to make to this site for forever! These changes are reflective of exciting new changes coming along. Stay tuned for news about "the Writer's Red Pen."

Away a Spell

    My dear readers, I do not wish you to think that I have forgotten this blog or you. I just have been otherwise 'employed.' Over the last few weeks I have  been doing a bit of print and web design for a friend's start-up business while doing research and working on my timeline.

    The timeline itself has taken a lot of work to find a viable solution - the trials of which I have been putting into an article I hope to have published soon. There are so many ways of doing what you want and need in this day that extensive exploration becomes necessity. My hope as always that in cataloging my explorations that I will help save you some of the time that I've spent and help speed along your process.

    Through my dabbling with the design work I have been downloading new programs that are part of the Adobe Cloud service that my husband and I have, and I found a program that has little to do with art design in these resources. I will be exploring this new piece of software in a upcoming post, as soon as I'm done familiarizing myself with it.

    With that I must get back to these projects.

Projects - Progress and Goals 06.08.12

Accomplished - Since 05/12/12

• Setting up files for Base Repository
• Posts:
• Back It Up! Part Two - a tale of almost woe.
• The Birth of a Book - Blog post share
• The wand which weaves; My Favorite Pen
• Started learning Git

Goals - 06/08/12

• Setting up Base Repository
• Looking into Visual Version Control

Back It Up! Part Two - a tale of almost woe.

This is a Perfect example of why you must not only backup, and back up often, but if at all possible have a third copy (a hard copy or digital - or both) of any important files.

Pixar nearly lost all of Toy Story 2 during production!

Getting into the Groove

I spent several days thinking about what I wanted for this blog. I've decided that there will be several kinds of posts for this blog.

• Goal Posts - These are pretty much self explanatory. Goals for daily, weekly, short term, log term goals.
• Progress Posts - These post will most likely be fairly short and filled with technical details, mostly about editing or work progress statuses.
• Character Posts - Mostly for character ideas or epiphanies regarding characters or character development.
• Story Posts - Similar to the Character Posts but regarding Story ideas, Plots, Series ideas, or titles.
• Overview or Summary Posts - I will attempt to post one each month or at the completion of major projects.
• Process Posts - These posts will relate to the process of writing. More specifically my process, what works for me what doesn't as well as what I find works for others on a consistent basis.
• Random - Writing related but general in nature.

Hopefully this will foster a creative structure that is both informative and entertaining.

 ~ Claire