Writing.

[foxmonkey]

Working on Still Life, because it's the ... yikes. I was about to tell a lie. It's one ot *two* still unfinished series I've got hanging out there, languishing. I've wanted to finish it up before the end of the year, so I pulled out the remaining three segments to have a look.

Jeebus, each of the three have four-five incarnations. I have the original, then a copy I put on my laptop and later transfered back to disk, a copy that was on my harddrive, and another copy I worked on - very briefly - while visiting my Dad a while back. To make the project even more fun, all of them vary in places. Whee!

I've merged all the different parts for two of the remaining sections. The third will be a bit more work because, while I know where it's going and how it will end, the middle is sagging a bit. Hmmm.

Question: Does anyone out there have a writing journal? If so, has it been useful? What kinds of things do you use it for? If it's online, are select friends invited in for comments and stuff, or is it strictly private?

Learn me!

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[jewelianna.livejournal.com]

I have a journal full of scenes, snippets, even just opening lines that I use whenever I get inspired but can't sit at my computer to work. It's got everything from ways the guys phrased stuff in interviews to full stories in it. It's pretty useful in the sense that I remember things I'd otherwise have forgotten, and makes a good reference if I'm trying to find a certain scene. For instance, if I can't quite figure out how to have a certain revelation come about, but I know I want it to be in a group of people, I'll browse through to see if I've ever come up with something like that and not used it.

It can be dangerous, though, when I'm tempted to just pull everything from the journal and then piece it together. That's the making of a really bad story.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I have a journal full of scenes, snippets, even just opening lines that I use whenever I get inspired but can't sit at my computer to work.

That's exactly why I need to get organized. It's criminal how much stuff I've got: snippets, nearly completed stories, scenes, even just lines, but it's all scattered in notebooks, on pieces of paper and on my drive and diskettes.

Nearly full stories and such I'll probably leave where they are, or consolidate into folders, but the snippets and things - easily lost or misplaced - need a home. Or a more organized home, at least.