Quote of the Day (05/06/08)
“I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.”
Beryl Pfizer
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This is a fairly accurate summation of my current working methods! It’s not so bad in terms of ‘real’ work as almost everything is duplicated in a file somewhere on my laptop or the network, or else it’s in a particular hardback notebook that I’m very careful with.
But I have bits of novel(s) and novel-planning everywhere at home – in multiple DOC and RTF files, on bits of paper, in random notebooks. I’m aiming to pull everything together into PageFour, a piece of creative writing software that I’ve been using for some months now. But guess what? I’m not that organised. Yet.
Comments
Comment from robert bourne
Time Saturday June 7 2008 at 3:28 am
now that I can definitely relate to..:))
Comment from Tina Kubala
Time Saturday June 7 2008 at 5:15 am
I have two notebooks in my work bag half full of “this and that” in hopes of scribbling becoming blog posts. Sometimes I have no idea what the thoughts behind the phrase meant, but sometimes when I go digging for a post, I find a real gem. Makes it all worth while.
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Comment from Dave King
Time Saturday June 7 2008 at 12:08 pm
I’ve tried that: I end up with lists of lists – and still lose track of them eventually… which saves me the task of culling.
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Comment from Kelly
Time Saturday June 7 2008 at 1:57 pm
Oh yes! That’s me, too! Recently, I’ve started only writing stuff down in a notebook. I’ve trained myself to almost always have the notebooks with me. It’s helping… a little. Everything is all mashed up in there… things I have to do, things I want to remember, ideas for this or that… but at least it’s all in one place now. It’s a start. And it’s probably as good as it’s ever going to get for me! LOL
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Comment from susan sonnen
Time Sunday June 8 2008 at 4:15 am
Sadly, that’s how my entire life is organized. And I use that word loosely. I (and now my daughters) am always tucking some item or another away in a ‘safe’ place only to never find it when I need it!
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Comment from Catherine
Time Tuesday June 10 2008 at 7:12 am
Fiendish! How can you possibly throw out written things? They might come in useful someday…
(That attitude might explain the boxes of paper that I never seem to get rid of, and which have moved houses with me a couple of times…)
Actually, I admire people who can throw things away and those who manage to write down their ideas (you can see from my posts about dreams that I generally forget most of mine).
I do have a couple of notebooks (one has wedding plans, the other generally fictional scribbled) – I just need to start carrying them around for when ideas hit me.
Comment from Fiendish
Time Saturday June 7 2008 at 12:25 am
Everything on my laptop is pretty organised, really.
That is, compared to the multitude of scraps, half-filled notebooks and drawers full of type-written pages that I threw out today when cleaning my room. I would say it took a small forest to produce that amount of rubbish. Sigh…
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