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Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3949
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 07:55 pm: |   |
While working on my current WIP, I've had some good ideas for the next book. I'm looking for some ideas on how to keep these ideas for later, since I don't want to lose the groove on this manuscript.
How does everyone else keep track of their notes for future works?
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Laurel Johnson
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Post Number:
4561
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 08:30 pm: | |
I keep a tablet for writing down thoughts and ideas. The tablet is strictly for writing ideas -- snippets of thoughts, words that resonate, character and plot ideas, locations -- anything that pops into my mind.
Keeping such info in a computer file does not work for me. I need something handy where I can grab a pen and jot something down whatever else I might be doing around the house.
Laurel Johnson
http://laureljohnsonblogs.blogspot.com
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Nancy Mehl
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Post Number:
2773
Registered: 08-2001
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2008 - 09:44 pm: | |
Word documents for me, but I'm joined at the hip to my computer.
Nancy
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"The Ivy Towers Mystery Series" Barbour Books - 2008
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
3021
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 - 12:13 am: | |
Word for me, too. I actually start a file like it was a real story. If it doesn't come to fruition, I delete it.
I've worn the paint off my delete key. |
Gloria Marlow
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Post Number:
2109
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 - 05:25 am: | |
I have a file folder that has notes and stuff on it. I write on napkins, scraps of paper, envelopes -- I've even wrote scenes on the back of grocery receipts, although it takes quite a few of them. Whatever I can find handy to write on at the moment that I can stuff in my file folder when I get home.
Eventually, I put it into separate Word files for each book idea.
Gloria
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Frank Mazur
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Post Number:
338
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 - 10:17 am: | |
Anything will do, but I like my tiny digital Sony recorder that I carry with me quite often. Mine is an early version and so only allows for 1-hour recording across 3 file folders. Even so, that's been more than enough. Today's models are the same pocket size but allow for recording times in excess of several hours. Also, some, like the Sony, can be purchased with software that allows you to dump the recordings onto your pc. They run about 50 cimolis and I've seen one that even includes an AM-FM radio. Since I use a Mac, I can't dump my ideas from the recorder to the computer, but just recently I went through each recording and erased those that had developed into stories and others that over time lost their appeal.
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
1318
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 - 02:49 pm: | |
I keep ideas in a notebook, but if I get inspired with an opening, I write it in Word.
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Harry Simenon
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Post Number:
2008
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
I have several notebooks at strategical places and a 'soft' notebook on my computer. Sometimes an old envelop or a piece of toiletpaper (unused) will do if I have nothing else. I have even written ideas on walls while I was fixing my house.
Sometimes I get ideas in the middle of the night and I scribble them on paper with the lights out and my eyes still closed; that is not always a successful method... |
Todd Hunter
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Post Number:
3962
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 02:38 pm: | |
I've been doing both (handwritten notes and electronic files/printouts) recently, along with this miracle of technology they call a corkboard...amazing what having pieces of paper staring you in the face will do for motivation.
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Harry Simenon
Unity Member
Post Number:
2009
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 10:35 am: | |
You could also carve the ideas in your arms and legs with a blunt knife, but you might end up in a straitjacket. That is pretty serious as in that case you can't write at all. |
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