[stylist] Organizing Content

Tue Oct 29 03:23:17 UTC 2013

I don't have any method for writing, I just write when an idea sticks with 
me for a while and acts like it wants to be acted upon.  As for organizing, 
my electronic files of my poetry are over organized.  I love, love, love 
putting things in order.  I have my poems in numeric and alphabet order.  I 
have a folder with multiple subfolders to know what day of the year a poem 
was written on.  I have a folder with pomes written on each day of the week, 
what date--as in the 1st, 5th, or (pick a number)--and how many were written 
in each year.  I've also tried dividing them into categories according to 
their topic and I also have them listed from longest to shortest.  LOL!  And 
I also do what lists of this kind I can do with other people's poems I 
collect--length, author, alphabetic, which author do I have the most or 
least number of poems by.  I'm not so particular with nonpoetic works 
because I don't do many of them.
How crazy is all that?
Barbara

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert Frost
-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 1:12 AM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] Organizing Content

My organization may seem intricate to some, but I like things in a
proper place, even on the computer, smile. I find it easier to organize
and retrieve. Some folders have sub-folders upon sub-folders, but this
works for me. I have done something similar for recipes I have, and
continue to collect. It just works for me. The hard-copy files are
something I really need to get started on. I've been intending to do
this project for some time.

Bridgit

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda
Lambert
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:29 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] Organizing Content

A lot of what you do is similar to what I do, Bridgit.
When my children ( 6 of them ) were small, I got up at 4 am to to work
every
day. These days, I can work any time I want since they are all grown up.
I
do designate some hours every day for writing or making art - I seldom
do
both in any one day.  I just cannot make the transition between two
things
in one day.  If I am working in the studio then that is where my mind is
for
that entire day. Likewise, with writing.

I have a folder for _Works in Progress_.  Here is where I have
sub-folders,
which I designate Poetry, or Essays, Research, etc. for the things I am
either working on, or just a thought or name for something that is just
in
my mind but not yet on paper.
then, when  I have finished that particular  piece,  I move it to the
folder that would "fit" that work. I save them on my hard drive, and I
print
every finished work out on paper so there is an actual hard copy in the
event all world be lost and the things gone.  I also save all the
finished
works onto a thumb drive or a CD.

I make separate CD's for different projects. For instance, right now, I
am
working on the series of essays for the book that will accompany a
national
art exhibition - "Vision and Revision:  Two Artists with loss of Sight -
but
Not Loss of Vision" All the essays, when the final edit is completed,
will
go onto a separate CD, as well as saved to my computer, and I put hard
copies  in a manilla folder that is labeled for that project.  I make a
binder book for each project, and in that book will be the CD for the
project, and the hard copies of everything necessary for that project.
Everything is put into transparent pages, and place in the binder. Each
project has it's own binder, and the binders are put on a shelf in my
office
for easy retrieval and use.

In past years, when I was living in Europe in the summers, I kept yearly

journals. Those journals then became my raw material when I wrote the
book,
Concerti: Psalms for the Pilgrimage.  I used 10 years of journals to
glean
the poems, reflections, research for the book.

Now that I am back on track and can begin picking up pieces from my past

pursuits, I want to return to Hildegard von Bingen. I have been
collecting
her books, and books about her, and want to get the CD's of her music,
so
that I can begin to pick up the pieces of where I was 6 years ago when I

lost my sight right in the middle of my abbatial research. It is just
now
that I feel confident that I could return to the kind of work I was
doing
before sight loss - I intend to begin this after the first of the year
when
I have put the current book out for printing.  I am sending one essay at
a
time to the person who is doing the formatting and organization of
images
and text for the book. Right now, she has TWO and a third one should be
ready by next week. So, I do work in layers, but they  re really well
calculated layers because I would drive myself stark raving MAD if I
tried
to do it all at once - and this way, I am only a little bit NUTS, not
full
tilt Bozo.  Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Organizing Content

>I write when I have time, which isn't often these days. I have a folder

>just for material I write on my laptop. Within this folder, I have
>multiple folders for various genres. Example, nonfiction, fiction,
>speeches, academic, etc. Then, within these sub-folders, I have more
>sub-folders labeled like current projects, future ideas, or the name of

>a specific thing I'm working on.
>
> Each document is labeled with its title. If a chapter idea for a
> longer manuscript, it's labeled with chapter number and title of
> story.
>
> I back everything up on a flashdrive as well as a hard drive device. I

> keep intending to have hard-copies to file for finished pieces, but I
> need to get a new printer.
>
> As long as I don't put pen to paper, so to speak, ideas usually stay
> in my head. And I prefer to let ideas simmer in my head before
> actually writing. Most writers write ideas out immediately, or as soon

> as they can. I do not. I like to do some kind of task, like cleaning,
> that doesn't require a lot of thinking, so I can think through story
> ideas. I like to envision stories and plots and characters and
> specific scenes before writing.
>
> Most writers also view writing as their daily job, waking at the same
> time each day, writing for a certain amount of time, breaking then
> writing more. This is not my style, even if not a mommy of young kids,

> but the mommy thing does take most my time right now. I write when I
> can, and not being a morning person, I definitely don't wake early to
> write.
>
> I also like to write something and put it away for a time. I come back

> to it later and read it through. If I still like it, I continue, but
> if it's no longer speaking to me, I either scrap it or start
> rethinking it.
>
> Really the only thing I would change would be giving me more time to
> write. I literally have ideas everyday. Some more fully-realized than
> others. As the kids get older, it affords me more time to write, but
> at 14 months and 4 years, they still require quite a bit of attention
> and supervision, smile.
>
> Bridgit
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme,
> James
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:37 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List (stylist at nfbnet.org)
> Subject: [stylist] Organizing Content
>
>
> Hi,
> If you have a method you use to organize what you write, what is it?
> How well does it work for you? How would you like to improve it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
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