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How do you organize and save your poetry files online?

Blog Posted by Kathleen Kroll: 5/15/2017 8:43:00 AM

I've been taking a writing class and realized that I really need to do a better job of saving and editing my poems . I started revising based on classmates comments and realized that I had dropped some good thoughts and lines from older editions simply because they were not available to me during revisions. I'd love to hear how you use file names and track revisions of a poem.

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Darren
White

Date: 5/19/2017 12:46:00 AM

I do a mixture of what I read below: a friend of mine (Sara Ella) designed a neat spreadsheet especially for me, that we both keep up to date online, it even includes my blog, the contests I am participating in, and the documents associated. I also keep everything in Word documents. I haven't printed those, but I save them on USB-sticks (more than one). I solely work out my poems online, although I have little notebooks and pencils everywhere, where I jot down my ideas in.

Kathleen Kroll
Date: 5/19/2017 12:01:00 PM

Very organized! There are some good ideas here. I'm going to start saving on USB sticks as well as laptop. I just cleaned out a file drawer to devote solely to my writing. All of you are helping me get more serious about what is becoming an addiction - albeit a good one. Thanks, Darren!

Andrea
Dietrich

Date: 5/16/2017 6:21:00 PM

Organizing my poetry will take me so much time, I fear I will never get to it. Right now I simply have everything organized b-annually in computer files and hard copies scattered in scrapbooks. Rarely revisions. I spend a lot of time on a poem, so unless I am looking at it months later in a new light, I rarely revise.

Kathleen Kroll
Date: 5/17/2017 6:22:00 AM

Thanks. I hadn't thought of scrapbooking. Good idea. You have so many beautiful, outstanding poems. Have you thought of doing an anthology of your best ones? For yourself? For family and friends?

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 5/16/2017 6:22:00 PM

meant to say BI-annually.

Anthony
Mark

Date: 5/16/2017 9:04:00 AM

Alphabetically unless it begins with a number, then numerically, but if it's a symbol...symbolically ....

Agnes
Krampe

Date: 5/15/2017 11:22:00 AM

I keep a hard copy of all poems in a binder and do most of the revising work on paper. When I type it up on the computer, different versions have numbers added to the end of the filename. This way, I have a record of all stages. I do not archive my work online because I want to have control and access at all times. I save poems that were written for occasions and very specific contests separately; they will most likely never be revisited, and I don't want them to clutter up my folders of serious work.

Kathleen Kroll
Date: 5/16/2017 10:34:00 AM

Thx for sharing your experience. There is so much truth there. I am slowly evolving to the point of taking my writing and myself as a writerbseriously. As you said, I will figure it out.

Constance La France
Date: 5/16/2017 8:41:00 AM

Kathy, once you acknowledge that you are a writer and that requires work and organization you will figure out your own system. I used to keep my poems in a box and by accident in 2012 they were thrown out when I was in the hospital and when i was a kid all my writing was destroyed in a fire.. now i guard my writing like precious treasure

Agnes Krampe
Date: 5/15/2017 8:15:00 PM

No, I don't have folders for each poem. I have folders for each year, and a subfolder for "Contest only" poems that are so specific that I won't be likely to ever go back and revise. Each poem is simply a word file. 'Springpoem.docx" would be the first version, "springpoem1.docx" the first revised one, and so on. That is how I handle file versions in my job as well.

Kathleen Kroll
Date: 5/15/2017 4:48:00 PM

Thanks, Agnes. These are great ideas, especially adding numbers to different versions of a poem. Do you hsve a digital folder for each poem? Thanks again for sharing. I think an underlying principle is that I need to seriously scknowledge myself as a writer and what I'm accomplishing.

Constance
La France

Date: 5/15/2017 9:09:00 AM

Hi, i do not trust online. I have hard copies of all my poetry, lately I have been writing them out in caligraphy but that takes time so there is a backlog at the moment. Regarding finding a poem for revision well that is a daunting task, i have binders by year and just go through the binders till I find the poem

Kathleen Kroll
Date: 5/15/2017 4:49:00 PM

Thanks for your ideas. I especially like having a binder for each year. I admire the beauty of archiving your poetry in calligraphy. Thanks again. Kathy

Constance La France
Date: 5/15/2017 9:14:00 AM

But sometimes i search ps by a word through manage my poems for example grandmother and all the poems I have about grandmother will be listed, and i can usually find the one i want that way.

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