Hey folks--particularly Scrivener folks but all comments welcome--I have a question about organizing files.
There's the book, which may consist of one or more files.
There's the supporting material--all the world building stuff.
Then there's the editing process. Not just the emails between you and the editor, but any associated documents.
Then there's the publication process. Now we're talking cover artist and all those files, an illustrator (e.g., cartographer). Perhaps an agent and publisher.
Then there's marketing--the blurb, the summary, announcements, swag.
Where do you keep all this?
I'm thinking of putting *everything* inside the Scrivener project. Not merely making a folder and stuffing things in there, but actually including them in the project, so it appears somewhere in the Binder. That way, all of it gets backed up as a normal part of the Scrivening. Does anyone do this? Does it have drawbacks?
Right now I have an entirely separate folder structure called "Business". Under that I have a folder for each work, whether published or in progress, with subfolders for the areas mentioned above. This feels cleaner to me, but it does mean I have to make backups on my own. Which is sort of okay by me. The book itself needs backups more often than do, say, contracts or design specs.
Anyway, I'm curious to hear from you. It's surprising how much material is associated with the business of writing.
There's the book, which may consist of one or more files.
There's the supporting material--all the world building stuff.
Then there's the editing process. Not just the emails between you and the editor, but any associated documents.
Then there's the publication process. Now we're talking cover artist and all those files, an illustrator (e.g., cartographer). Perhaps an agent and publisher.
Then there's marketing--the blurb, the summary, announcements, swag.
Where do you keep all this?
I'm thinking of putting *everything* inside the Scrivener project. Not merely making a folder and stuffing things in there, but actually including them in the project, so it appears somewhere in the Binder. That way, all of it gets backed up as a normal part of the Scrivening. Does anyone do this? Does it have drawbacks?
Right now I have an entirely separate folder structure called "Business". Under that I have a folder for each work, whether published or in progress, with subfolders for the areas mentioned above. This feels cleaner to me, but it does mean I have to make backups on my own. Which is sort of okay by me. The book itself needs backups more often than do, say, contracts or design specs.
Anyway, I'm curious to hear from you. It's surprising how much material is associated with the business of writing.