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- From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Notes for writing
- Message-ID: <73249@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 10 Oct 92 05:00:43 GMT
- References: <1992Oct9.003517.26300@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- macgyver@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (MacGyver) writes:
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- >I've been keeping notes of ideas, plots, & characters that come to me
- >during brain storm, or writing. But the notebook I keep is generally
- >very disorganized.
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- I wrote a simple database on the Mac. A title field, a text field, a few
- keywords (plotline, character sketch, idea fragment, setting). I put in what
- I have, and can either browse through looking for nuggets or do keyword
- searches looking for specific things. The more complex you make it, the less
- likely you are to use it and the harder it is to get stuff back out (and the
- more time you spend filing, meaning you spend less time writing).
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- My next addition will be a box in which I can toss photocopies of stuff or
- articles cut out of magazines, or other non-electronic things or interest
- that I can occasionally browse through and see if I can make use of.
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