I'm toying with a new thought for organizing my writing.
If you've been following this blog for a while, you know that I print out monthly calendars and mark which day each chapter takes place on as I write. This keeps my timeline intact and accurate. It also saves me some huge headaches.
Huge!
I recently wrote a side project where I thought I had the timeline lodged in my head only to discover when I went to mark up the calendar that I royally messed up. It took quite a bit of work to fix it.
I'd like to think I learned my lesson, but I'm sure this will be temporary because I've learned this lesson multiple times before. :-)
But to get to my scathingly brilliant idea, I started to think what if I printed out my calendars on sticker paper and put them into a hardbound notebook? I have a bunch of B5 sized notebooks and this way I wouldn't have lose copy paper pages with calendars on them floating around my office, waiting for me to misplace them. Much harder to lose an entire bound book.
Although, with my ADHD, anything can get lost. Still, I think it would be easier to keep track of an entire book, especially if I put it on the shelf above my desk.
This would only be for completed books. Like I'd have the first eight books of the Paladin League series in there, but not book nine. Book nine, Wicked Attraction, would still be recorded on a paper calendar and only added to the book once it was finished and I knew things weren't going to move around.
I've already worked out that I need to print the calendar PDF at 80% to fit it in the B5 notebook.
I'm tempted to do this, but then I started wondering if this is really something I should spend time on or not. I currently have all the Paladin League calendars in a binder and they're secure. I also know where the binder is.
Who am I kidding? I'll probably end up doing this. If it works? Scathingly brilliant idea. If it doesn't work? I wasted time. Gah!
