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Hard Copies Rule
Aug. 25th, 2012 12:13 amI love hard copies of stuff, I really do. Remember that story I mentioned a while back, the one I thought up nearly a decade ago, set aside, though I would never write and recently decided I did want to write it? It wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't been in the habit of taking notes in notebooks and printing up notes on the computer. With all the computer hopping around we've been doing, a lot of documents ended up lost in the shuffle, and if they're still out there I have no idea how to get them back. Which wouldn't have been a big deal if I hadn't upped and decided to resurrect what I thought to be a dead story idea. Then it was a big deal.
Until I found my notes, jotted in a notebook and printed into a packet.
Seriously, I love having hard copies. Disks and flashdrives are all fine and good as long as your computer is accepting and not one to jump to error reports or crashing because everything's outdated. but hard copies are there. This story was a whopper and is probably the most world-building I've ever done. Lots of plot, lots of world back-story, lots of creatures and characters and funky mythical made-up words. This was not a story I could start over from scratch because it's the kind of story that - though I do write them - I don't really think up anymore. And if I hadn't had my notes somewhere other than a computer then this story idea would probably have ended up back in the "not gonna happen" pile.
So I really need to develop a new habit of printing up my notes should this ever happen again (notebook notes probably aren't going to happen as it kills my wrists). Because having my notes right smack there where I could fine them when I thought them lost was beyond amazing.
Until I found my notes, jotted in a notebook and printed into a packet.
Seriously, I love having hard copies. Disks and flashdrives are all fine and good as long as your computer is accepting and not one to jump to error reports or crashing because everything's outdated. but hard copies are there. This story was a whopper and is probably the most world-building I've ever done. Lots of plot, lots of world back-story, lots of creatures and characters and funky mythical made-up words. This was not a story I could start over from scratch because it's the kind of story that - though I do write them - I don't really think up anymore. And if I hadn't had my notes somewhere other than a computer then this story idea would probably have ended up back in the "not gonna happen" pile.
So I really need to develop a new habit of printing up my notes should this ever happen again (notebook notes probably aren't going to happen as it kills my wrists). Because having my notes right smack there where I could fine them when I thought them lost was beyond amazing.
