Two Bits

[karaksindru]

I took out the electric clippers and trimmed my hair and beard tonight. Not quite as short as the last time, but still much shorter.

Stopped in to the diner on my way home from work and finished the old man's expository bits for what may turn out to be a retelling of a role playing game alarin612 ran a few years ago. It ties in with this vignette (which

Comments

[kvenkman]

I like options 1-3 personally.

1 is good because (obviously) you're saving space and probably can be hugely organized, can jump from "page to page" editing and adding.

2 is good because you keep ideas separated by book. it is problematic if you have an idea for one story and not that notebook at hand (happens with me a lot, and I go with option 3)and are OCD about not putting one setting in another book.

Option 3 is good because you can keep things "consolidated" in one place. If you do what I started to do, put a few blank pages in the front for "chapter titles" as you write them (mine are fic titles, etc.) and a page for a written reminder of your system--basically a growing table of contents for your organizing pleasure, and numbering the writing pages, you might be able to skip around a bit if you keep track of things.

Option 4 is just silly and stifling. Sometimes an idea might build up in your head and you might overthink it (I tend to do that, overthink to the point of not being able to write...) and make it horrible if you don't write it down soon.

But all that is just my brain (not)working...

I'm pretty much sticking to options 1 and 3 personally. Whichever medium is available at the time. I at least keep my story ideas and inspiration/details in a completely separate notebook (my cheap mini-Mead composition notebook fits in a back pocket. You might want to try a smaller Moleskine notebook if you do this. Spendy but resilient, I hear...)

Okay, I'd better stop rambling! --and you just reminded me I need to look into a certain notebook type I remember seeing at REI, as I keep having ideas in the shower and never have a proper notebook handy--really happened the other day. I think I lost about 50% of my idea because I couldn't write it down immediately as I thought of it!