Don’t Lose Them
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A quick bit of advice to my writerly friends – don’t lose them.
Don’t lose your old writings. The stories you wrote years ago or even last week. The aborted attempts at books, the hobble fanfic, the twitterfic, the little scribbles.
Keep them.
Come up with a way to organize them and stick to it.
I recently began organizing my backlog of story files in Scrivener, and found that I was missing hard copies of both of Tayt’s original stories, and I can’t find a few of the stories that I know I had in my self-published Story Sketchbook.
On top of THAT, I found a series of roleplay stories that I’d posted on DeviantArt and never saved hard copies of, and I’d completely forgotten about the murloc story I’d written until I dug back to get Tayt’s stories from the internet.
Rescue them! House them safely somewhere that you can find them again, and put them all in one place – not some on a blog, some in googledocs, some on a usb drive, and some in various folders between your computer and laptop.
Bre recently implemented an online organizational tool that she’s calling Word Spinner. I’m using Scrivener.
What are YOU using?
I am using a set of nested files to organize what little I have.
I keep a copy on the hard drive at work and one on the laptop at home. That and the “transport” copy that goes on my flash drive. That way I if I write in one place I can carry it to the other and have it backed up off site.
Then again I don’t have nearly the volume of someothers out there, i have only been writing for about a year or so.
@Dechion
Excellent! Keep it up! It’s easier to add new writing to an existing system than it is to try and hunt down stuff you’ve already lost!