My Writing Notes: Organized At Last!

Given the numerous problems I’ve had organizing my writing notes in the past, I’ve been searching high-and-low for a solution for many years, hoping I’d eventually stumble upon an organizational program that works for me. I’ve tried OneNote, Scrivener, mind-mapping programs, notecard programs, plotting programs, Post-It note-style programs, etc. and ran into many problems, including:Continue reading “My Writing Notes: Organized At Last!”

Trying to Organize An Army of Snippets

Even though I’d found the discipline to properly label all my writing notes/reminders/snippets and had diligently been saving them into text documents, in the end, I had way too many of them. Imagine several more folders full of documents like the ones above. Each document had hundreds of entries which typically included writing notes spanningContinue reading “Trying to Organize An Army of Snippets”

My Writing Notes Have Always Been a Hot Mess

As all writers should, I have a “dumping ground” to write ideas that might pop into my head at any given moment. Some people call these moments ‘inspiration’. And perhaps they are, but I’ve noticed these moments typically don’t come unless you’re letting unfinished stories live in your head long enough for them to flourishContinue reading “My Writing Notes Have Always Been a Hot Mess”