My organizational frenzy has faded away, as quickly as it arrived. But it has pushed me to continue to organize (reluctantly, I must admit). I have a new filing cabinet being delivered next week, which will give me enough space to organize the endlessly breeding piles of paper, and save me from scraping my knuckles trying to pry folders out of the crowded drawers.
I’m also organizing all my bits and pieces that I collect on the computer into Evernote.
An illustrator friend mentioned Evernote, after I went on and on about the joys for Scrivener, for writers. I think that Evernote is her illustrator-equivalent. Now I love it too. It’s like Stickies on the Mac, except the notes and images can be organized into notebooks. I tend to collect bits – ideas and images, story moments – usually in a tangle of files or slips of paper. Now I can dump them all into Evernote and then ignore them or browse them or pull out something when I’m ready to work on a story.
Of course, what I really want to be doing is writing. But writing in chaos distracts me – the time I spend organizing now will help me spend less time on admin work, and be quieter and more focused on writing, which is always where I want to be.
Maureen
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