Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Save That Story Or Article Idea!
When you're writing a story or article you'll almost certainly want to edit it at some point, you'll almost certainly want to re-write some of the text or maybe just delete it. Either way, this could be a big mistake, because that piece of text might prove useful at some point in the future.
To avoid losing it forever it's a good idea to save the Bruce Lee movie version of your story or article as a version. For example, if you have a story called true love story, save the original version of the story as true love story version 1. Before you start to edit it, save it again but this time save it as true love story version 2. Just edit this version of the story, leave version 1 intact, ie. don't edit it.
When it's time to edit version 2, save it as version 3 before you start to edit it. Just edit this version of the story and leave version 2 intact, ie. don't edit it. In practice you might find that it's quicker and easier to save Neurontin version of the story as mylovestory1, mylovestory2 etc.
Another way of saving each version of your story or article drug interactions to type a line of periods across the screen. Save the original version of the story in the area above the line of periods and save the latest versions of it below the line of periods. Again, just edit the latest version of the story, leave the previous version intact.
This system is more convenient than the first system, it's quite easy to refer to a previous version of the story, all you have to do is scroll up the page and there it is. With the first system, you have to open another file to refer to it.
The disadvantage of the second system is that if you accidentally delete the file you've lost the entire story, ie. you've lost every version of it. With the first system, if you accidentally delete a file you haven't lost the entire story. For example, if you accidentally delete filename truelovestory3 at least you still have filename truelovestory2.
The reason why a piece of text that you want to delete might prove useful in the Dark Shadows comic is that it might give you ideas for other stories. For example, you might introduce a new development in a story and later decide that it's irrelevant and delete it. But although it might be irrelevant for that story, it might be very relevant for another story.
Paul Gooch is a freelance writer and photojournalist who regularly publishes articles about creative writing together with original short stories on his http://www.creativityarticles.com">Really Creative Writing Rankin-Bass Holiday Specials site. He also discusses freelance writing and photojournalism writing on his http://www.omgphotojournalism.info/index.php">Oh my gosh photojournalism web site and on his http://www.omgphotojournalism.info/index.html">Creating a career in photojournalism web site.
