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Story in one document or many?

Everything's in one document!
6 (46.2%)
I break the story into several documents (by chapter)
7 (53.8%)
I break the story into several documents (by scene)
0 (0%)
I break the story into several documents (by part)
0 (0%)
Other
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 13

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Offline Lord Nedd

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Re: One or many documents?
« Reply #15 on: November 29, 2006, 10:14:49 PM »
... I have heard that Word gets squirrely once a document starts getting too big.

Word's pretty squirrely just on general principles. ;)

Hmm.  Has anyone had any rodentia problems with Open Office?

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Re: One or many documents?
« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2006, 04:49:54 AM »
As first drafts, I often have a key scene  or section in its own document.  Then, as I refine things and see how they can relate as chapters, I combine my sections into individual chapter documents.

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Re: One or many documents?
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2006, 08:53:56 PM »
So far I've been doing the separate file for each chapter, but they go into my "writing" folder.  Inside the writing folder there are subfolders.  Subfolder categories: Short stories, poems, novels in progress, etc.  It may not be the right way to go for everyone, but I like it.   ;)

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Re: One or many documents?
« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2006, 09:46:51 AM »
I break mine up into chapters (though after reading some of the comments I may reconsider to using just one document XD), but they're put in a folder reserved for that one story I'm working on.
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Re: One or many documents?
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2006, 04:23:34 PM »
One chapter, one document, in early draft.  Because when I'm using multiple POVs, I frequently find myself needing to shuffle them around in later drafts.

My preferred word processor for writing is Protext, which is DOS-based, because basically nothing could induce me to have Windows on a machine I wanted to write on.  I also use emacs sometimes. This is relevant because Protext has limits in how large a file it's reliable with.
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