Check-in Monday 28th May

[lacygrey]

Hi, how are the WIPs going today?

Poll #10649 What did you do today?

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What did you do today

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Write
5 (62.5%)

Edit
2 (25.0%)

Post
3 (37.5%)

Beta
0 (0.0%)

Be betaed
1 (12.5%)

Read
0 (0.0%)

Something else
2 (25.0%)

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For discussion:

How do you keep your fic files organised, particularly if you have many WIPs going on at the same time? On your hard drive? Dropbox? Google docs? FF.net?
Also, how do you keep them private?

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[lacygrey]

I edited. But it was other people's RL stuff for work, so its not the same.

I'm not at all organised. Although most of my fic are short, they are often interelated, which means that I want to put them in shared files. I hide my fic from my family so its all stuffed in hidden places like google docs and obscure corners of my hard drive under anonymous names. In other worrds, I haven't cracked the file storage thing yet. That's rather why I asked.

[lilly_c]

I keep nearly all my fics on a penkey (removable usb) and I usually save them with the titles as the file name. Sometimes I make a private post on my DW for fic, but that's usually when I'm visiting the family.

[linaewen]

I'm waiting for a beta to get my chapter back to me, but I may go ahead and post without it, as I feel pretty confident that it's ready for posting. I'll post today in any case. I hope to write some more today before my guests come! With this chapter of 2,345 words, I'm about 1/3 of the way to my 7,000 word challenge quota for this WIP.

I used to use Google Docs quite a bit so that I could write on different computers other than my own, but not so much any more. I have a folder on my hard drive called Writing Projects where each grouping of stories has its own subfolder. This folder is also duplicated on a removable flash drive. Since I use Jarte to compose and write, and have the program set to open the Writing Projects folder first, this works very well. Jarte is also installed on my flash drive, so I can use it anywhere without having to worry about one of my stories getting saved on a random computer. Keeping things private isn't a big deal to me, so I don't worry about it -- though my flash drive came with a vault for storing things under a password if that should ever become necessary!

[crowdog66]

I wrote and posted the first chapter of a new Lethe!verse short fic, "Vintage".

These days I keep all stories and notes related to a particular ficverse in a Scrivener document, which organizes things automatically and makes keeping track a snap. And since my husband is a civilized human being and doesn't go rooting around in my folders on the computer, keeping things private isn't a problem at all. :) (Even if he did stumble across them, he knows that I write fanfic so I wouldn't freak out TOO much at him seeing it...)

[lullabymoon]

I managed about 200 words (I did it longhand and I've not bothered counting yet) on my other goal fic. Really pleased as I've been putting it off for a while for no apparent reason.

Everything is on my hardrive. I used googledocs for a wee while to try and get some writing done when I was away from my computer but it didn't work out very well for me. I have three fic folders: a focus on folder for stuff that has deadlines or I'm trying to get finished first, a wip folder that has all the rest of my documents, and a folder that has all my finished pieces, arranged into subfolders by year finished. All the documents have a descriptive title with fandom initials unless my some miracle I've managed to come up with a title. I do everything on my netbook which no one else has access to so that's mainly how I keep them private.

[krait]

I'm oldschool and disorganised -- generally, everything for a particular fandom is kept in a single Word document with an illuminating and original title like "Valdemarfic". :D If I finish a piece within the document, I generally post it to DW under private lock so I can quickly check all my coding and read it over before posting it to wherever it's going. I may then create a separate document containing only that fic, saved under its title, but that's optional and usually gets saved in the folder for fic I want to read, not in with the stuff-I'm-writing.