We can accumulate a great deal when we write. This is an awesome thing. Usually, though, we lose track of our organization over time. When things get hectic, or when you have documents that don't really have a place just yet, they sort of get tossed in a pile to be dealt with later. Then we forget to deal with it.
Eventually, "later" will come. Go through your old files. Reorganize them. Give those uncategorizeable pieces new categories. See if a new organization system would make it easier to find things.
The reorganization has a double use. It makes you see your old stuff again. You will find things you forgot you ever wrote. You'll find things you love and things you will hate (and they will all be your work). But in either case, they will serve to remind you who you used to be and who you have become, both as a writer and a person.
So go and clean out your files. When you're done with that, go write so much stuff that your files fall into organizational disarray again.
About Me
- Kevin Bahler
- I am a writer. A writer is one who writes. By the same logic, I am also a thinker, an observer, and a puzzle solver. I am a graduate from the State University of New York at Cortland with a degree in Professional Writing. The idea of the program is that one studies all three aspects of writing as a whole: Creative Writing, Technical Writing, and Rhetoric. The knowledge I have gained in those subjects is put to use in every aspect of my life. The worst thing a person can be is boring. I am most interested in people who can pique my interests. An example is people who can correctly use the word 'pique'.
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