Comments on: Geek Thoughts: editing http://dubinko.info/blog/2009/10/04/geek-thoughts-editing/ From an XML geek, a reader, a writer, a connector, a man of the people (says keep hope alive) Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Piers Hollott http://dubinko.info/blog/2009/10/04/geek-thoughts-editing/comment-page-1/#comment-4685 Piers Hollott Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:46:16 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/?p=658#comment-4685 Tinderbox is a good idea... I miss being a mac user! November is coming up soon and my plans for NaNoWriMo are also up in the air. The advantage of hyper-outlining as a legitimate way to get started early doesn't actually make it much easier to make time, when the crunch hits. My own plan for this year's attempt involve a metafiction using content scraped from my 'blog, docbook as an intermediary, and several layers of xquery to integrate blogspot's atom comments into the main narrative. Not exactly hypertext, more like instant House of Leaves or Infinite Jest. At least that's the plan, time-willing ;) Tinderbox is a good idea… I miss being a mac user! November is coming up soon and my plans for NaNoWriMo are also up in the air. The advantage of hyper-outlining as a legitimate way to get started early doesn’t actually make it much easier to make time, when the crunch hits.

My own plan for this year’s attempt involve a metafiction using content scraped from my ‘blog, docbook as an intermediary, and several layers of xquery to integrate blogspot’s atom comments into the main narrative. Not exactly hypertext, more like instant House of Leaves or Infinite Jest.

At least that’s the plan, time-willing ;)

]]> By: mdubinko http://dubinko.info/blog/2009/10/04/geek-thoughts-editing/comment-page-1/#comment-4683 mdubinko Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:35:24 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/?p=658#comment-4683 I've done stuff both heavily outlined in advance and totally free-form. I can't really say one has worked better than the other for me. They're just...different. I will probably try Eastgate Tinderbox as an organizational tool soon. It's my reward for finishing Revision 3. :-) NaNoWriMo is still up in the air for this year. If I do it, it will definitely be in the non-previously-outlined category... If the Tinderbox experiment goes well, I might try to write some hypertext. -m I’ve done stuff both heavily outlined in advance and totally free-form. I can’t really say one has worked better than the other for me. They’re just…different.

I will probably try Eastgate Tinderbox as an organizational tool soon. It’s my reward for finishing Revision 3. :-)

NaNoWriMo is still up in the air for this year. If I do it, it will definitely be in the non-previously-outlined category… If the Tinderbox experiment goes well, I might try to write some hypertext. -m

]]> By: Piers Hollott http://dubinko.info/blog/2009/10/04/geek-thoughts-editing/comment-page-1/#comment-4682 Piers Hollott Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:54:22 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/?p=658#comment-4682 Triage is about maintaining three categories, and that is how I tend to write the first revision: keep the good, cut the obvious crap, defer everything else to some time else or somewhere else. You make a good breakdown of the process, but I'm curious what your thoughts are about "Draft 0: the outline"... A friend just completed a first draft of a novel he had planned in a three day marathon writing session (see link below), but he couldn't have done this without an incredibly meticulous outline, from which he deviated frequently, of course. My past attempts at NaNoWriMo have tended to peter out because I ran out of outline. When I have succeeded, it has been through the use of STACKS and STACKS of index cards. What is surprising I find is how liberating just getting it down on screen feels when you turn the crap filters off. Are you planning to do NaNoWriMo this year? [http://3d1d.1889.ca] Triage is about maintaining three categories, and that is how I tend to write the first revision: keep the good, cut the obvious crap, defer everything else to some time else or somewhere else.

You make a good breakdown of the process, but I’m curious what your thoughts are about “Draft 0: the outline”… A friend just completed a first draft of a novel he had planned in a three day marathon writing session (see link below), but he couldn’t have done this without an incredibly meticulous outline, from which he deviated frequently, of course.

My past attempts at NaNoWriMo have tended to peter out because I ran out of outline. When I have succeeded, it has been through the use of STACKS and STACKS of index cards. What is surprising I find is how liberating just getting it down on screen feels when you turn the crap filters off.

Are you planning to do NaNoWriMo this year?

[http://3d1d.1889.ca]

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