Heh, no, it's true -- the organising can be nicely zen! I mean, there's certainly a reason I can cheerfully spend hours messing around with plot spreadsheets or my writing journal. :D
I should probably do something like what you did with my massive old chatlog paste files -- sure, I may have everything relating to one project in one place, but it's not exactly easily parseable. (For one thing, everything is GIGANTICALLY out of order, since it's all chronological-by-chatlog-date. XD;) Actually, I'd probably do well to organise all my notes properly, and not just the actual ficbits...
(Admittedly, I think I did do that once -- it's just that it was in software I don't have anymore. *dramatic sigh*)
Aerial view! That's a really good term for it. :D I tend to get to it by making buttloads of nerdy spreadsheets, myself. I'd be ridiculously lost without them, to be honest, because, yep, non-linear. So, so non-linear, omg.
(End note: I sometimes wish I'd get those lovely blast-out-in-one-go pieces more often... and then I remember how they generally mean 2+ days of no sleep and terrible eating habits and coming out the other side a total physical wreck, and I'm kinda fine with them being so rare. XD)
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I should probably do something like what you did with my massive old chatlog paste files -- sure, I may have everything relating to one project in one place, but it's not exactly easily parseable. (For one thing, everything is GIGANTICALLY out of order, since it's all chronological-by-chatlog-date. XD;) Actually, I'd probably do well to organise all my notes properly, and not just the actual ficbits...
(Admittedly, I think I did do that once -- it's just that it was in software I don't have anymore. *dramatic sigh*)
Aerial view! That's a really good term for it. :D I tend to get to it by making buttloads of nerdy spreadsheets, myself. I'd be ridiculously lost without them, to be honest, because, yep, non-linear. So, so non-linear, omg.
(End note: I sometimes wish I'd get those lovely blast-out-in-one-go pieces more often... and then I remember how they generally mean 2+ days of no sleep and terrible eating habits and coming out the other side a total physical wreck, and I'm kinda fine with them being so rare. XD)